Artworks - Milos Bhat

Radiating- Reflecting- & Black-Bodies in a Benignly-Inclined Space

2014
Oil on canvas
180x 120 x 6.5cm.

Series: Spatial Geometry | Topology
Media | Oil

Inana & Dumuzi

2013
Oil on Canvas
140 x 120 x 4cm
Private Collection

Series: Spatial & Figurative Geometry
Media | Oil

Space Telling Objects How to Behave

2014
Oil on canvas
140 x 120 x 4cm

Series: Spatial Geometry | Topology
Media | Oil

The Portal

2018
Acrylic on canvas
140 x 120 x 4cm
Private Collection

Media | Acrylic

Light, Tension & Repose
Series: Spatial Geometry
Topology
Depth & Proximity

Textile Ballet

2000
Textile, paper, acrylic and lacquer on carton
70 x 44cm.

More: Works in Textile

Textile Blossom

2000
Textile, paper, aquarelle on carton
70 x 50cm.
Private Collection

Works in Textile

Textile Tension

1997
Textile & styrofoam on hardboard
102 x 97cm.

Works in Textile

Textile Autumn
September

1997
Textile and acrylic on plywood
100 x 70cm.

Works in Textile

Rhapsody in Red
Temnograph

1999
Paper and Tempera on carton.
54.5 x 97.5cm
Private Collection

Temnography. The term was coined by my friend Walter Gierhl for the methodology employed in this series of my works. "Temno" meaning to cut in Greek.

Amphitrite
And her Nereid Sibling

1988
Steatite
h 24cms.
Private Collection

Black & White

2018
Steatite
h.18cm
Private Collection

Top & Bottom
Day & Night
Soft & Hard
Left & Right
Yin & Yang
Black & White

Entzauberung der Welt
Max Weber

2008
Acrylic and metal on canvas
70 x 100cm.
Private Collection

Entzauberung der Welt
Disenchantment & Demythologization of the World

Of Homer & Hesiod, Aesop, the Parrot Book, Arabian Nights, Grimm & Anderson
Of Carolus Linnaeus and Max Weber
Of singing Sirens, dancing Mermaids and classified Cetaceans(Humpback Whale)

No Whale Ho!
The Fate of Self-Sustenance Economies in a Globlaized World

2001
media: photographs, plaster of paris, sand, granite, cement, paper, ink, acrylic, latex, laquer and a sperm whale tooth (a present from the harpoonist) on hard board
100 x 70cm

The photos were taken during my stay in the whaling village of Lamalera, Flores, Indonesia in 1996. For a fuller account-still in preparation-a link to the relevant Chapter from the Travels through Indonesian Archipelago, 1996 will be provided here.

Montage Journal India

1997
Graphite, paper (ink and charcoal drawings), acrylic, synthetic fixatives and latex coating on plywood
110 x 90cm (framed)
Private Collection

A montage of some sketches, that I made during my intermittent visits to a very few locations of this huge landmass, appropriately called a subcontinent, from years 1978 to 2014.

Mixed Media

Montage Journal Africa

1997
Photos (of pages from the travel journal:The Nyakyusa), granite, sand, acrylic and synthetic fixatives on hard board
100 x 80cm (framed)

A montage of the pages from my journal: The Nyakyusa that I wrote during my social anthropological field research in Tanzania for the Ethnological Faculty of the University of Berlin in the year 1988. The Nyakyusa are a cattle-herding agricultural community who live in southern regions of Tanzania and in northern Malawi. I took lessons in the local language and traveled extensively through the hilly regions, much of it accessible only on foot.

Photomontage Africa

1997
Photographs & acrylic on hard board. d
100 x 70cm

A montage of photos taken during travels to Kenya (1987) and Tanzania (1988)

Mixed Media

Self Portrait
Nomads Progress

1989
German magazine pages and oil on a trashed window frame with a white lacquered wooden inset. The oil paint on the already lacquered surface was scratched with needles and nails to bring out the contours of the images and then fixed with various fixatives.
Painted inset: 49.5cm x 75cm
Overall: 60.5 x 87cm

Mixed Media

Still Life with Dynamic Matter

1998
Dynamic dollar bills & kinetic coins on glass.
Overall: 28 x 80cm

Mixed Media

Totem & Taboo
The magic inside a piece of cloth

2008
Necktie, shirt and sandals on hardboard
100 x 70cm

This work was inspired by some sarcastic comments from people, including my colleagues at the airport Tegel, Berlin, on seeing a Bavarian peasant wearing corduroy shorts with straps, a necktie, and sandals with long socks. A necktie literally imposed a specific set of dress code, and certainly no sandals. The peasant, by the way, was authentically a gentleman, absolutely a fatherly adult, and certainly above the mundane rut, to even notice the surprised looks, some even jeering from a couple of the ladies. The event inspired me to write a whole essay on the magic of this small piece of textile in the industrial world.

Autobiography of Ms. Not-Rose Wild
Or the lamentations of a wild flower

1992
HP-Printed paper, ink-fixative, lacqeur, ink and acrylic on canvas.
52 x 75 cm
Private Collection

Mixed Media

Bottleneck Eve, Jr.
A Tale from the Laboratory

2000
Polyacryl, polyester, styrofoam, lacquer, electrical cables and consumer articles on hard board
104 x 60 cm

About non-mitochondrial cyborgs, crispr gene-editing, bio-engineering, big data, neural networks, virtual worlds and of course quantum computing. All mindbogglingly occurring within a single human life-span.

Mixed Media

An Asian Composition

2019
Textile, tempera, acrylic, textile tape, latex and glue on carton.
70 x 100cm.

A painted and fixed(glued) Temnograph

Opera-2

1985
Folded paper, water colors, drawing pins on styrofoam board
70 x 100cm.

Rhapsody in Candle-Wax

1992
Candle Wax drops and tempera on carton
45 x 60 cm

Series: Wax. Candles & Shoe Cream

Rhapsody in Blue

1991
Pastel
100 x 70cm

Works in Pastel

Duet

1987
Pastel
70 x 100cm.
Private Collection

A summer afternoon scene at Dahlem, near the precincts of the Free University Berlin, where I studied. A pleasant and conducive reprise to learning during lecture breaks.

Works in Pastel

A Nyakyusa Woman Knitting
Itete, Busokelo, Mbeye, Tanzania, 1988

1991
Pastel
73 x 100cm.
Private Collection

Trudging up the road less high hills in Busokelo, I finally arrived at Itete, where the elders of the village gathered to vote on my presence. Voted positive, my welcome was followed by a ritual sharing of a bucket of Pombe(“porridge beer”) passed first from the chief to the welcomed guest, and which I handed over to the next person, till it was shared by all. I prepared to pitch my tent in the courtyard of the Chief’s house, as I always did. I was conducting field research for the Dept. of Ethnology, the Free University of Berlin. But for the Chief, Mr. Mwobogelo, it was unthinkable that I should sleep 'in the wild' when his own home had space to offer.
This portrait of his daughter, is a tribute to the grace of the family Mwobogelo, who turned a stranger into a guest, and a village into a memory that never fades.

For more congenial autobiographical, episodic narratives see: Sketches & Drawings

Other works in Pastel

San Fransisco-1
Kearny & Columbus: Where the hippies met the Beatniks

1991
Tempera on carton
80x90cm

Kearny & Columbus, SF (Sept 1989): Where the Beat Generation met the Summer of Love. Frequented by Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Joni Mitchel, Crosby, Stills, Young and Nash, Joplin, and the protagonists of the gritty American literary rebellion, the beat poets, as they called themselves, with Ginsberg and Kerouac seeking inspiration at the City Lights Bookstore. There, Bob Dylan once dodged a mob of fans by climbing out of the bookstore window. For the fans of Star Trek, only a few years earlier, to save the whales, Admiral Kirk and Spock walked past this place in Star Trek IV. The drawing (1991) is based on a photo that I shot, just weeks before the '89 earthquake.

Sketches & Drawings

Works in Pastel

Montmarte
Fin deSiècle

1987
Tempera on carton
78x100cm

Frozen Movement

1987
Tempera on carton
78x108cm

Neural Composition

1987
Tempera on carton
94 x 96.5 cm

Visceral Composition

1987
Tempera on carton
79 x 96cm

Aquatic Geometry

2014
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 140 x 4cm
Private Collection

Media | Acrylic

Flores

2014
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 140 x 4cm

Media | Acrylic

Spring

2014
Acrylic on canvas
80 x 60 x 4cm
Private Collection

Media | Acrylic

Photon Shower

2019
Acrylic on canvas
80 x 100cm

Media | Acrylic

Mediterranean Summer

2017
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 120 x 4cm
Private Collection

Media | Acrylic

Urbanscape
Fuelled by Gas

2014
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 100 x 4cm
Private Collection

Knockin on the Temple-Door for a glmpse of the stairway to heaven.

Knockin on the Temple-Door
For A glimpse of the Stairway to Heaven

2019
Acrylic on cardboard
80 x 100cm

Cosmic Geometry with exotic rectangular shapes

Cosmic Geometry
With some exotic rectangular shapes

2019
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 150 x 4cm

Media | Acrylic

Venus

2019
Acrylic and sand on canvas
120 x 150 x 4cm

Series: Figurative Geometry

Agony

2009
Mixed Media on canvas
80 x 70cm
Private Collection

Seema

2011
Oil on canvas
90 x 60cm
Private Collection

Series: Figurative Geometry

Geometry
More Euclidean than Riemann

2011
Oil on canvas
80 x 100cm
Private Collection

Starlit Geometry

2012
Oil on canvas
120 x 160 x 4.5cm

Series: Spatial Geometry | Topology

Subsaharan Topography

2012
Oil on canvas
90 x 80cm

Series: Spatial Geometry | Topology

Arctic Topography

2012
Oil on canvas
100 x 100cm

Series: Spatial Geometry | Topology

Venice 2

2014
Oil on canvas
100 x 120cm

Media | Oil

Exodus

2014
Oil on canvas
140 x 140 x 6cm
Private Collection

Cascade 2

2018
Oil on canvas
100 x 140 x 4cm
Private Collection

4 Perceptions

2018
Acrylic on canvas
150 x 120 x 4cm

From the series:
Spatial Geometry
Geometrical Optical Illusions
Depth & Proximity
Topology
The perceptions can vary in the manner listed below, though not necessarily in the same sequence.
1. As a curved surface with four longitudinal convex shapes spaced close to one another. Perceived source of light: To the right side of the observer.
2. As four columns of equal length and width amidst a dark background. Perceived source of light: To the right of the observer.
3. As four either slightly curved or totally flat rectangular sheet-like shapes spaced in a row and protruding right out of the frame (canvas) into the room, where the painting is hanging without any bottom surface. Perceived source of light: To the left of the observer.
4. As a concave folded space with three outward-protruding prominent ridges. This perception changes. The curved space between the ridges transforms to flat planes, the ridges then seem to be inclined, and as a further transformation, suddenly appear in the foreground as a kind of grid on a colored background, like a latticework. This may yet again turn into a horizontal view of a staircase-like structure. The perceived source of light varies from the front to the left side of the observer.

Geometrical Topography 1

2011
Oil on canvas
80 x 100cm

From the series:
Spatial Geometry
Geometrical Optical Illusions
Depth & Proximity
Photo taken indoors in broad daylight. Depending upon the source of light _ preferably from top front _ the wide ridges will appear to protrude out, creating an illusion of 3D.