Paritosh has a Diploma in Painting from theSir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai in 1964-68. He has a technique of weathering his stronger colors, adding touches of white to age the effect of an otherwise bold hue. Kolte spent twenty-two years teaching at .J. School of Art and got retired in 1994. Experience: In the early 80s, Prabhakar’s work took a new direction as he began experimenting with installation and performative art pieces. In one piece, he covered a car with newspaper; in another, he painted a volunteer black entitled "A Man Without Shadow". Such off-the-canvas experiments allowed him a free space to play with abstract ideas of color and form outside the shadow of Klee`s influence. His early canvases are characterized by a single, dominant color in the background, on which lighter and more complex forms, both geometric and organic, are placed.