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T Santhosh

T V Santhosh (Born 1968) is active/lives in India.  T Santhosh is known for News media based painting, war and violence themes.

T.V. Santhosh reinvents images of global conflict, terrorism, war and state oppression, appropriated from various media sources. He is best known for his large-scale photorealistic oil paintings—images rendered in bright neon colors, in which the darks and lights are reversed, like a color negative.

The referents are as stark as the color contrasts: soldiers, blindfolded prisoners, homemade bombs and bomb-sniffing dogs, terrorists and barbed wire, each charged with the explicit and implicit violence of states and insurgents, borders and transgressions. Santhosh's works are often categorized as political, but, on a more fundamental level, they manifest a process of ethical and philosophical questioning.

His paintings force viewers to confront the universality of human cause and consequence, no matter their perspective. "The first thing you do in the day is look at a newspaper, and every day there is a new bomb blast—some more people dead," he said in an interview wiChristie's, Mumbai   ...  [Displaying 1018 of 8443 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about T Santhosh

   T Santhosh  Born:  1968 - Kerala, India
Known for:  News media based painting, war and violence themes
Name variants:  T V Santosh

T.V. Santhosh reinvents images of global conflict, terrorism, war and state oppression, appropriated from various media sources. He is best known for his large-scale photorealistic oil paintings—images rendered in bright neon colors, in which the darks and lights are reversed, like a color negative.

The referents are as stark as the color contrasts: soldiers, blindfolded prisoners, homemade bombs and bomb-sniffing dogs, terrorists and barbed wire, each charged with the explicit and implicit violence of states and insurgents, borders and transgressions. Santhosh's works are often categorized as political, but, on a more fundamental level, they manifest a process of ethical and philosophical questioning.

His paintings forChristie's, Mumbai  ...  Displaying 768 of 8443 characters.

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