“I, as an artist,
am entitled to conflicts,
obsessions, frustrations,
but when I approach the canvas
with my brush,
I try to resolve and triumph over them
by creating the work of art.
And the moment it is finished,
it is an independent entity.
It is released from my system
and it acquires a life of its own...”
D G ‘DIZI’ KULKARNI
1921-1992
The Dizi Kulkarni Foundation owns a collection of Dizi's works and our mission is to preserve and share this legacy of Indian art to promote creative talent and artistic expression. Please contact us if you would like to support our endeavour.
Dizi: Paintings is a catalogue raisonné presented by the Dizi Kulkarni Foundation. The publication features 112 paintings by Dizi, considered "one of the most interesting Modernist artists in India" by Richard R. Brettell in his introduction to The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 3, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.