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Bengaluru: Shivanand K Pattar, veteran artist and Lecturer of the Government Fine Art School Dharwad is holding a solo exhibition at the prestigious Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai. The exhibition is slated to be inaugurated on 04 June and will continue until 10 June. Alumnus of Hampi Kannada University: Shivanand K Pattar is an alumnus of the Hampi Kannada University doing his Masters in Visual Arts. He completed the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Karnataka University, Dharwad, apart from doing the AM, and GD courses from the Shri Vivekanand Kalamandira, Raibag in Belagavi district. A gradual shift from figurative to abstraction: According to Gayatri Desai, senior artist and Varnashilpi Venkatappa awardee-"Shivanand K. Pattar's art practice reflects how the artist has shifted slowly from figurative to abstraction with time. The body of works, mainly abstracts, titled ' Elements' makes the viewer contemplate seriously on the elements of life and the elements of ar

BR Patil Bheemanagouda Ramanagouda Patil popularly known as BR Patil is a retired Professor of Education from the Government B Ed College in Dharwad. He originally belongs to Hirebagewadi, one of the two biggest villages after Yellur in Belagavi Taluk. Now in his 96th year, he continues to enjoy a robust healthy life with clear vision and audibility. He has a disciplined schedule and a limited but proper diet at specific periodic intervals. Interaction with him hints at the tremendous energy he is overloaded with.  Even at this age, he keeps recalling and reciting the 200-odd vachanas he had penned several decades back. Although due to the age factor, he keeps repeating the same subject frequently that’s no hindrance to stating clearly what he wants to express candidly! In a freewheeling chat, he opens up in an amazing manner for any personality at such an age and stage in life. You may not feel like agreeing to his views on a variety of subjects, yet what looks astonishing is his non-