Radha series 12
This Radha beauty veers towards melancholic grace and elegance
This painting “Radha” is an outstanding work by well-known master artist Suhas Roy. His work is usually inspired by life around him, but his themes are as much influenced by the everyday world as they are rooted in fantasy. Suhas preoccupation is primarily with the female face and form. This painting is romanticized, inhabiting the dreamlike world between sensuality and innocence. The graceful portrayal of the subject has much to do with his choice of materials – his crayons, charcoal and brush have sensitivity and refinement. The vast and complex texture of life is seen as mystical and dark in the artist work.
Radhika
Radhika by Sukanta Das
This artwork illustrates a surreal and dream-like quality
This painting “Radhika” is an outstanding work by artist Sukanta Das. Sukanta draws with mixed media on canvas and is fluent in translating emotions on the canvas. This piece has a surreal quality about them, possibly due to the palette he employs. The acrylics on canvas are moments captured in time, and have a photo-realist quality. Das often places these women in idyllic garden settings giving his work the surreal and dream-like quality. Notice their clothes and the art on them. Inspired by Mughal miniature, Sukanta draws an interesting portrait as if to relate the figure to a distant past or a story.
RANI MA WITH TABLA
Original work by Pintu Paul
Rare beauty
This artwork portray the relationship between man and woman in a metaphysical manner
This painting “Rare Beauty” is an outstanding work by artist Paresh Mridha. He has kept himself engrossed in the nostalgic touches and depicted the relationship between man and woman with a hemispheric outlook. The expression of the figure mainly the faces is that of purity and reality. He can confidently capture forms in his own distinctive manner enlivened by an innate feeling of peace with the world and the joy that comes out of such feeling. It is the joy which is variously reflected in the soft and suggestive use of colors of the rich ornamentation of lines. Decoration is certainly an important trait of Paresh work, but so are the dynamism of the lines and the liveliness of the colors which often combine to provide the viewer a rare aesthetic experience.
Red Village
This artwork depicts villages reminiscent beauty and aesthetics of the rural scene
This painting “Red Village” is an outstanding work by artist Nagesh Ghodke. He is popular for his villagescapes and finds his muse in ever changing nature. The geographical and cultural upbringing has largely inspired his work. This work bring to light the destruction of nature and the resulting plight of villagers. The prominently used medium is acrylic, the color palette consists of greens, blues and reds, each setting a mood in his paintings. The village houses are uniform in color and architecture and are carefully yet haphazardly stacked. The proximity of the houses symbolize the close-knit village communities.
Rhythm
This artwork represents Telangana women in their unique festival of flowers
This painting “Rhythm” is an outstanding work by artist Kishan Kappari. Kishan’s preoccupation with young women with long plaits, becomes his trademark style focusing on the Telangana women and their peculiar activities. Bathukamma is one of the works in which Kappari portrays a very important festive ritual of Telangana. Women make floral arrangements and place them in the center on the ground in order to sing and dance by going around it. Usually, they are placed in a tricky way showing only their back with dark brunette hair adorned with flowers and hair bands. They speak poetic fantasies, as conversations with the Buddha, herds of cattle in a forest etc. The figures however, are the central characters as well as the viewers, who confront picturesque backdrop, a painting within a painting. Here, the artist undermines the significance of characters, who only cherish or worship the ubiquitous backdrop, where nature, birds and at times the Buddha’s life are conceived as main themes.
RUPASI
Original work by Pintu Paul
Song of the village series
This artwork is nostalgic, depicting the rural people where the artist grew up
This painting “Song of the village” is an outstanding work by artist Laxman Aelay. He is known for his nostalgic paintings that depict the people that he grew up amongst, in his ancestral village of Kadirenigudem in Telangana. His muse has been the live of poverty stricken people from his village and specific culturality of a village with men, women against the backdrop of their homes. This painting is one of the most recognizable works in black and white compositions, against brightly painted backgrounds such as red, green and yellow. His latest works are monochromatic, much smaller and compact.
Spritual Harmony III
This artwork represents the rich tribal culture and heritage of India
This painting “Spiritual Harmony” is an outstanding work by artist Dewashish Das. The artist has spent a part of his life amongst the tribals. Having imbibed their ways, he has tried to capture their lifestyle into his art. Simple details like caste marks, necklaces, peacock feathers, animals and vivid colors like red, green, yellow, blue and white are the trademarks of his paintings.
This painting is one of the latest series based on Monks, consist of truly peaceful and aesthetically pleasing compositions. These works, largely in hues of rich reds and gold are mature & sophisticated. The subjects of his artworks have been largely the tribals of India, resplendent in their proud beauty, bejeweled, blending into earthy brown hued backdrops.
