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Bapu
Sattriraju Lakshmi Narayana, also known as Bapu
was born on 14th of December in 1933 in Narsapur, West Godavari,
Andhra Pradesh. He graduated as a lawyer from University of Madras
in 1955. He joined as political cartoonist for the newspaper Andhra
Patrika in 1955. He later went on to become designer, movie director
and a popular painter.
Painting Style
Bapu introduced a new style of painting using simple
bright colours which are easy on the eye. His unique style of economy
of strokes, freehand drawing and non-usage of background clutter
made the paintings simple, beautiful and popular. He specializes
in Hindu mythological characters and has painted the Hindu epic
Ramayana as a pictorial story. In his paintings, characters like
Shiva, Bhima, Duryodhana look distinctly male with wide chests,
bigger jaws and large biceps, while Krishna and Rama have a tinge
of feminine sensitivity. All his female characters (including Hindu
Goddesses) have deer like eyes, a waist-hip ratio of 0.7, voluptuous
breasts, long hair and a sharp nose. In fact, the phrase Bapu Bomma
(Bapu's painting) has become synonymous with a beautiful girl in
Telugu. Another character called Rendu Jedala Seetha (Seetha, a
girl with two plaits) later became a synonym with any girl wearing
two plaits.
Bapu has also introduced a new cursive writing
in Telugu which is probably the only alternative to the more traditional
print font in Telugu.
Collaborations with other artists
He worked with Satyam Sankaramanchi and drew hundered
and one pictures for each of the stories in Amaravati Kathalu. He
collaborated with comic writer Mullapudi Venkata Ramana and gave
life to Mullapudi's characters Budugu and his family in the form
of pictures.
Movies
Bapu has directed movies like Muthyala Muggu, Mana
Voori Pandavulu, Sampoorna Ramayanam (The complete Ramayana), Pelli
Pustakam (The book of marriage), Saakshi (witness), Mr.Pellam (Mr.Wife),
Tyagayya (a biopic on the life of Saint Tyagaraja) and Radha Gopalam
(Radha and Gopalam).
The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes
that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the
world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even
draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend
to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces
can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from
the existing paintings.h
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