RT Journal A1 Punnoose AR T1 YOu-july ’70 JF JAMA JO JAMA YR 2012 FD June 20 VO 307 IS 23 SP 2466 OP 2466 DO 10.1001/jama.2012.3044 UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.3044 AB Energy and brilliance were common themes in Biren De's works. As his art developed, he moved away from portraits and figurative paintings to abstract themes that, according to some art critics, incorporated Hindu and Buddhist symbols. He used different geometric shapes— yantras— placed within explosions of bright color or shadows to articulate his interpretation of the universe's energy. As in You, painted in 1970, several of his paintings feature a seed-like bhindu at their centers that symbolizes the core, the source of the universe's energy. Asked to describe his work after an exhibit at the Frederick Wight Galleries at the University of California in Los Angeles in 1985, De wrote,