Word: shabda
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...paintings' titles are arbitrary; Advaitad and Shabda (opposite), for example, means "non-separateness from the impersonal oneness of Brahma" and "a meaningful sound or syllable." The scruffy textures of the paintings suggest weather-beaten walls or the aged face of the earth. Like the art brut, or raw, unpolished art, of France's Dubuffet or Spain's Tapies, these Indian moderns seem to be topographies scarred by glowing fissures, tracks of the varieties of human experience...