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Madhukar
Munde
Painter · Printmaker · Sculptor
Where Geometry Meets the Sacred
Featured: Sacred Face
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Artist Portfolio
Painter · Printmaker · Sculptor
Where Geometry Meets the Sacred
Featured: Sacred Face
Madhukar Munde (b. 1962, Parli Vaijanath, Maharashtra) has spent four decades developing a singular visual language — reducing the world to its most essential geometric forms while infusing each composition with spiritual depth and folk memory.
A graduate and former Head of Department at Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, his work spans painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Each painting is a tessellation of triangles, diamonds, and primal shapes composing sacred faces, mystical creatures, trees of life, and folk landscapes.
His art has been exhibited across India, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Poland, Italy, Romania, Germany, and the USA, with works in permanent collections at the Floren Museum (Romania), Modern Art Galleries in Japan, Lalit Kala Akademi, and major corporate collections.
“Madhukar's spontaneous expression will provide art enthusiasts with a sense of tranquility, like a cool shade away from the hustle and bustle of life.” — Suman Kumar Singh
Line, shape, form, pattern, symmetry, proportion — geometry vividly demonstrates the interdependence between art and mathematics. Both require spatial reasoning and imagination.
Put paper and pencil in a child's hands — the only forms drawn will be geometric. This comprehension emerges without instruction. Cézanne felt everything reduces to the square, circle, and cone.
In cave paintings, figures were lines, triangles, and squares. The same geometry appears in Warli folk art and the agricultural tools of rural India — humanity's oldest visual language.
The presence of female power — Shakti — is necessary for birth and development. Mother power has been elevated to adoration in Sanatan tradition for ages.
“Geometric shapes mixed with spontaneity of forms — this is the pictorial language where form and color carry meaning beyond words.”
Floren Museum (Romania) · Modern Art Gallery (Japan) · Premo Intl Biella (Italy) · Lalit Kala Akademi · Bharat Bhavan · British Council · Jindal Art Foundation · Air India · Reliance · Godrej · L&T · Private collections worldwide
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