Sakti Burman
India • 1935
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Sakti Burman was born in 1935 in India in Calcutta, where he studied arts.
Fascinated by Western culture and art, he moved to Paris for the first time in the 1950s and joined the Ecole des Beaux-Arts there for 5 years thanks to a scholarship.
Now imbued with Western culture, Sakti Burman wanted to have a new look at the traditional culture of her country and returned to India at the end of her Parisian training.
However, the artist quickly returned to France and settled permanently in Paris in the 1960s, which saw the birth of his personal style.
His eminently decorative paintings, imbued with a certain onirism and great spirituality, depict a hybridization of cultures, at the crossroads of the Indian imagination and the Western aesthetic tradition.
His very particular technique, even a trompe l'oeil, offers a new painting with connotations of frescoes adorning the old stone walls of the Buddhist caves of his native country.
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Who is the artist?
Sakti Burman was born in 1935 in India in Calcutta, where he studied arts.
Fascinated by Western culture and art, he moved to Paris for the first time in the 1950s and joined the Ecole des Beaux-Arts there for 5 years thanks to a scholarship.
Now imbued with Western culture, Sakti Burman wanted to have a new look at the traditional culture of her country and returned to India at the end of her Parisian training.
However, the artist quickly returned to France and settled permanently in Paris in the 1960s, which saw the birth of his personal style.
His eminently decorative paintings, imbued with a certain onirism and great spirituality, depict a hybridization of cultures, at the crossroads of the Indian imagination and the Western aesthetic tradition.
His very particular technique, even a trompe l'oeil, offers a new painting with connotations of frescoes adorning the old stone walls of the Buddhist caves of his native country.
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When was Sakti Burman born?
The year of birth of the artist is: 1935