Monday, November 29, 2010

Autobio-"audio"-graphy (organized by Kala Samay and Chavi Samvad)

 Few days back i was invited to talk about myself and my own journey and its various milestones in between and how life took its twists and turns. This was about an hour long session with approx half hour  of my monologue. The rest half i devoted to the question and answer sessions. They have recorded the session hopefully some clips were aired too. I have requested  to get some clips for uploading on net. 

An observation of one of the person  (Mr Devilal Patidar) was that in my paintings the surface becomes a very important part of the the painting. .. he had observed that I paid particular attention to developing the surface texture of the painting. Of course it is true to a major extent. 

With landscapes  most of my paintings have a 3D surface because of using thick impasto with knife and then working over it with colour. There are a few horses and ganesh that i have done in that manner . I do  pay particular attention, to the way the painting surface develops. I like to have finesse in my work. blending tones into one another and thats what i enjoy doing. 

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

1975 year of Jugalbandi of Painting with Prose

In the year 1975 a friend of mine thought about having a jugalbandi of  Poetry  and  Paintings  

The result was paintings based on poetry by Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh's poetry 'Andhere Mein ' . The reason this poet was picked was that the pictorial aspect of his verses was very prominent  (as also evident in lines below). The full text is available in KavitaKosh here


बाहर शहर के, पहाड़ी के उस पार, तालाब...


अँधेरा सब ओर,
निस्तब्ध जल,
पर, भीतर से उभरती है सहसा
सलिल के तम-श्याम शीशे में कोई श्वेत आकृति
कुहरीला कोई बड़ा चेहरा फैल जाता है
और मुसकाता है,
पहचान बताता है,
किन्तु, मैं हतप्रभ,
नहीं वह समझ में आता।

One sample painting (this is a scanned B/W image - the best i could manage )
There is also a writeup based on my limited understanding during those times. and a much youthful me :)  


Note: Later I also worked on poetry by Shamsher. but that may be some other time.