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 Signatures by Osho: Can You Call Them Art?

19th Sep, 2024

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Edition: 300| Year: 10.10.1974| Courtesy: affordindianart.blogspot.com

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He used bright colored markers, blot ink and felt-tip pens to make usually spherical designs on a blank page at the beginning or at the end of the volume.| Courtesy: affordindianart.blogspot.com

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 They seem to represent the evolving stages of a sage. | Courtesy: affordindianart.blogspot.com

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It is stated by the OSHO Commune, Pune that OSHO created about 900 so called ‘signature paintings’ inscribed on the blank cover pages of his books, as part of his extended signature. | Courtesy: affordindianart.blogspot.com

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OSHO’s signatures. Signing every book he read, he used ‘Old signatures’ in 3 parts and ‘New signatures’ in one flow, OSHO did not sign his name, instead wrote in Sanskrit Namaste from Rajneesh‘. | Courtesy: affordindianart.blogspot.com

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The shift from old to new signatures was a continuous process, and we see a gradual change of signature from a  simple in the beginning to new calligraphic signature colored with felt tip-pen. | Courtesy: affordindianart.blogspot.com

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Also old signatures are occasionally colored. | Courtesy: affordindianart.blogspot.com

No-8

All books in Lao Tzu Library are signed, with dates in Hindi in Hindi books and in English in English books. | Courtesy: affordindianart.blogspot.com

No-9

When reading a book, OSHO sometimes made a drawing. He would call for a book he liked the most that week and then painted its philosophy or essence. | Courtesy: affordindianart.blogspot.com

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Each of these signature is different from the other and that is where the uniqueness of His art lies. | Courtesy: affordindianart.blogspot.com

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Multi-colored orbs or spiraling motion in orange. | Courtesy: affordindianart.blogspot.com