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Bindu
Large-format acrylic painting by Syed Haider Raza (1980). The Bindu (Sanskrit: point or dot) is the primordial cosmic point from which all creation emanates. Raza's painting places a central dot surrounded by concentric geometric forms. Held by Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Scholarly Significance
PAG abstraction anchor: Raza's Bindu at Centre Pompidou.
Notes
- ·Raza began the Bindu series in the early 1970s.
- ·The Bindu is drawn from the Tantric cosmological concept of the primordial point.
- ·Concentric geometric forms radiate from the central dot in high-keyed acrylic colour.
- ·Major retrospective at Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2015.