BHUPEN KHAKHAR
Khakhar is known as India’s first Pop artist, though relationship to Pop art more complex. His engagement with the bright colors usually confined to calendar art and middle-class homes and shops opened Indian art to an expanded range of colors. In the earliest stage of the artist’s career, figures are designed and stylized in a manner akin to traditional and early modern Indian miniature painting. Aside from his lives as accountant and artist, Khakhar was also a well-known writer in Gujarati, crafting plays and stories inflected with the same humor and irony seen in his paintings.
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