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{{Short description|Indian artist (1917 – 2001)}}
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'''Hari Ambadas Gade''' (19 August 1917 – 16 December 2001)<ref>{{cite web|title=H. A. Gade|url=http://www.yusuf-contemporary-art.co.uk/Contemporary-Indian-Art-Links/H--A--Gade.html|accessdate=10 April 2013}}</ref> was an [[Indian art]]ist. He is remembered as one of [[Independent India|independent India's]] pioneering [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] painters.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Visual Arts in a City of Migrants|url=https://www.goethe.de/ins/in/lp/kul/mag/kus/bil/mum/en7244444.htm|publisher=Goethe Institut|accessdate=12 April 2013}}</ref><ref name="artisthagade">{{cite web|title=H. A. Gade - Biography|url=http://artisthagade.com/|accessdate=10 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130421225847/http://artisthagade.com/|archive-date=21 April 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Gade was born in 1917 at [[Talegaon Dashasar Village of District Amravati]] in [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]. He studied science at the [[University of Nagpur]] where he enrolled in 1939 with the Nagpur School of Art. He taught at [[Jabalpur|Jabalpur's]] Spencer Training College for five years before completing a [[Diploma]] and then a [[Master's degree|Masters in Art]] during 1949-50. He later enrolled for a year at the [[Central Institute of Education]], [[New Delhi]] in 1958.<ref name="theory.tifr">{{cite web|title=H. A. Gade|url=http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/leisure/art/ha-gade.html|publisher=TIFR|accessdate=10 April 2013}}</ref><ref name="goaartgallery">{{cite web|title=H A Gade - Artist Profile|url=http://goaartgallery.com/gade_h_a.htm|publisher=Goa Art Gallery|accessdate=10 April 2013}}</ref>

== Artistic career ==

Gade began his career doing [[watercolour]] [[Landscape art|landscapes]] before moving on to [[Oil painting|oil]] [[canvas]]es. As a Progressive Artist, his works reflect a break from the colonial values and styles that had conditioned art education in colonial India.<ref name="artisthagade" /> At least one critic has noted that "In [Gade's] works, color is of importance, form is only incidental."<ref name="saffronart">{{cite web|title=Hari Ambadas Gade - Profile|url=http://www.saffronart.com/artists/hari-ambadas-gade|publisher=Saffronart|accessdate=10 April 2013}}</ref> Some of Gade works reflect the artist's affectation by the slums and poverty of the [[Bombay]] of the 1950s. He did however continue to produce a prodigious and diverse set of landscapes covering themes from [[Kerala]] and the [[Indian monsoon]]s to the arid landscape of [[Rajasthan|Rajasthan's]] [[Udaipur]].<ref name="saffronart" />

Gade had an interest in science and mathematics and he read several works by [[Roger Fry]] on painting techniques and [[aesthetics]]. His works reflect his scientific inclination in their geometrically structured landscapes which are also evocative of the [[cubism|cubists]]. Some of his notable works include ''Kashmir'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Hari Ambadas Gade - Kashmir|url=http://www.saffronart.com/fixed/ItemDetails.aspx?iid=9135&a=Hari%20Ambadas%20Gade&pt=2&eid=32|accessdate=10 April 2013}}</ref> ''Going to the Temple'', ''Donkeys'', ''Civilization'' and ''Omkareshwar''.<ref name="arcadja">{{cite web|title=SOME WORKS OF HARI AMBADAS GADE|url=http://www.arcadja.com/auctions/en/gade_hari_ambadas/artist/141768/|accessdate=10 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=South Asia Through Modernist Binoculars|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/arts/design/radical-terrain-at-the-rubin-museum-of-art.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|accessdate=10 April 2013|newspaper=New York Times|date=27 December 2012}}</ref> Gade's paintings employ both the [[palette knife]] and the paintbrush and he has been referred to as a "painters' painter" on account his innate appreciation of the visual impact of colours.<ref>{{cite web|title=Artists' Profile - H A Gade|url=http://www.greatbanyanart.com/byartist.asp?aid=290|publisher=Great Banyan|access-date=10 April 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111205185640/http://www.greatbanyanart.com/byartist.asp?aid=290|archive-date=5 December 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Gade was one of the six founding members of the [[Progressive Artists' Group]] and remained its part until its dissolution in 1956. His works have been exhibited at various venues both in India and abroad including at The Moderns, the inaugural exhibition at the [[National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai]].<ref name="artist.christies">{{cite web|title=HARI AMBADAS GADE|url=http://artist.christies.com/Hari-Ambadas-Gade--23102.aspx|publisher=Christies|accessdate=10 April 2013}}</ref> Some of the venues abroad include the [[Stanford University]] exhibition (1948), [[Basel]] (1951, 1956) and the [[Venice Biennale]] (1954).<ref name="theory.tifr" /> In the late 1950s, he founded the [[Bombay Group of Artists]] which had [[K. K. Hebbar]] and [[Bal Chhabda]] among its members.<ref name="arcadja" />

== Awards ==
Gade won the Bombay Art Society's gold medal in 1956. He was also feted at the Maharashtra State Art Exhibition and at the [[Saigon]] Biennale of 1962.<ref name="goaartgallery" /><ref name="artist.christies" />

== Death and legacy ==
Gade died in 2001. Several of his works are with the [[National Gallery of Modern Art]] and [[Lalit Kala Akademi]], New Delhi and the [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]], Mumbai. Several art galleries across Europe also have his works in their possession.<ref name="artisthagade" />

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