PAINTER
S.R. Bhushan
"The sensibility of a town dweller, hopelessly caught in the rhythm and techniques of present life, as much as he found an answer to his need for harmony and novelty."
Thinking back on Bhushan’s work seen in Delhi during the sixties and seventies, and of which the large collage-like paintings of the early seventies were the perfected culmination (still later to be followed by sculpture), it becomes patent that every man is a mystery in himself, full of potentialities. In Bhushan’s case, the early collages had often inscribed in them graffiti, chance newspaper print, or reproductions. These showed from under the print. It was in the more mature work from which Bhushan had banished the ephemeral poster effects, only to retain the delightful lights and shades seen in the flotsam of the current media-gripped age. Here we were witness to a salient of modern abstract art, an art manifold, art that can recognize its own inner being, art that can find some substantial nourishment even from waste. This means that Bhushan had then achieved a fulfilling response to his distinct sensibility, the sensibility of the town dweller hopelessly caught in the rhy...
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