| Born 1956
Baiju Parthan is an artist with a mythopoeic imagination. He has created a unique vocabulary based on the intriguing use of symbols and archaic imagery. A botanist by training and until recently a cartoonist with the Times of India Group of Publications in Bombay, Baiju is also a scholar of Comparative Mythology and Philosophy. All these diverse elements have had a great influence on him. Baiju's paintings express the numinous world of the primitive man, where the artist is the shaman, who through his 'ceremonial art' communes with the world of magic - perhaps black magic. He creates compelling mythic imagery in black, with some blues and greens. The background is parchment brown, creating thereby an illusion of a medieval manuscript of some secretive magical cult.
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