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MASTER OF FANTASY

Form. The Medley of Colours.
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The Exactness of Structures.

Belief. Devotion. Fantasy. A

Myriad Modern Expressions.

or C D Mistry, a Modern Indian Art master
who defied genres, created his own idiom

and nurtured generations of contemporary
Fartists, the foray into art began at a

subliminal level even before he fully understood it. As
a child, as he learnt to draw, he learnt to really see. And

what he saw were vibrant colours, unique hand crafts
and indigenous art. Born in 1933 in Chikhli, a village

in southern Gujarat, Chhaganbhai Dayaram Mistry