1941: Manjit Bawa was born in Dhuri, Punjab.
1958: Started studying at School of Arts, Delhi Polytechnic in New Delhi.
1963: Completed his education.
1964: Went to Britain to study Silk Screen Printing and to work as a Silk Screen Printer.
1967: Finished the diploma in Silk Screen Printing from London School of Printing, Essex and started working as a silk screen printer.
2005: Slipped into coma after a stroke.
2008: Died at the age of 67.
Background
Manjit Bawa was born in 1941 in Dhuri,Punjab.Bawa's older brothers encouraged him to pursue art. He studied fine arts at the College of Art, New Delhi between 1958 and 1963, where his professors included Somnath Hore, Rakesh Mehra, Dhanaraj Bhagat and B.C. Sanyal. "But I gained an identity under Abani Sen. Sen would ask me to do 50 sketches every day, only to reject most of them. As a result I inculcated the habit of working continuously. He taught me to revere the figurative at a time when the entire scene was leaning in favor of the abstract. Without that initial training I could never have been able to distort forms and create the stylization you see in my work today," recalls Bawa.
Education
At the London School of Printing, Essex he did his diploma in Silk Screen-Printing. The artist took up the profession of a silkscreen printer in Britain during 1964-1971.
From the year 1958 to 1963 Manjit Bawa was the student of Fine Arts at New Delhi in the College of Art. He gained the guidance of artists such as Dhanaraj Bhagat, Somnath Hore, B.C. Sanyal and Rakesh Mehra but it was under the assistance of Abani Sen when he was successful in attaining repute.At the College of Art in Delhi, he worked as the visiting faculty for some time.
Career
From 1967 to'71 he worked in London as a silk screen printer. A figurative painter from the beginning of his career. Manjit has achieved a summary simplicity of figuration, which is remotely reminiscent of Kalighat Pat's and linear flow and modernist remolding of form we find in Jogen Choudhury.