Dashrath Patel
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Dashrath Patel (1927 – 1 December 2010) was an Indian designer, sculptor, who was the founder secretary of the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, from 1961 to 1981.[2]
He was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 1981,[3] followed by the Padma Bhushan, posthumously in 2011.[4]
Early life and education
Born in 1927 in Sojitra, Gujarat, Patel studied fine arts at Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai (1949–53), where Debi Prasad Roy Choudhury was his mentor; thereafter studied painting, sculpture and ceramics during his Post Graduate studies at École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1953–1955).[5][6]
Career
He practiced in diverse art fields as a painter, ceramist, a graphic designer, industrial design and exhibition design. Early in his career he was contemporary of Tyeb Mehta, M.F. Hussain and V. S. Gaitonde who were together in the 1950s in Bhulabhai Desai Institute, Mumbai, and often exhibited alongside them. Later Henri Cartier-Bresson introduced him to photography, after former visited his exhibition at the Galerie Barbizon, Paris.[7][8] He remained the secretary of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad for its first 20 years, from 1961, he also established the ceramics department at the institute.[7] He resigned from NID in 1981 disillusioned, and went on to establish the Rural Design School in Sewapuri, near Varanasi.[5]
During his career he collaborated extensively with artists, American designer Charles Eames, artist Harindranath Chattopadhyay, dancer Chandralekha.[2] He died in Ahmedabad after a brief illness, at the age of 83 on 1 December 2010. He was bachelor.
During the last decade of his life, he worked largely from Alibagh, near Mumbai, where the Dashrath Patel Museum now houses his multidisciplinary oeurve[check spelling].[9]
References
- ^ Ravindran, Shruti (29 December 2008). "Purple Goldfish". Outlook India. Archived from the original on 20 February 2011.
- ^ a b "Dashrath Patel's death marks end of a design era". Zee News. 3 December 2010.
- ^ "Padma Awards Directory (1954-2009)" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 May 2013.
- ^ "Padma Awards Announced" (Press release). Ministry of Home Affairs. 25 January 2011.
- ^ a b Padmanabhan, Chitra (12 December 2010). "Thinker in the visual realm". The Hindu. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ Design Teachers: Dashrath Patel, Biography designindia.net.
- ^ a b "Understanding Dashrath Patel". Frontline, Volume 16 - Issue 15. 17–30 July 1999. Archived from the original on 2 July 2012.
- ^ "Design Dada Dashrath Patel is dead". The Times of India. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ "Remembering Dashrath Patel: 1927-2010". Narthaki. 23 December 2010. Archived from the original on 29 January 2012.
External links
- "Dashrath Patel Profile,Interview and Artworks"
- Dashrath Patel Museum, website
- Works by Dashrath Patel
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