If he could draw as a newborn, he would have. Born right into the middle of India’s struggle for freedom in Amara Bangla (eng. Bengal), even as a child, Dhiraj Choudhury absorbed the realities of life in those tough times including the great Bengal famine of 1943.Revolutionaries like Khudiram Bose, Aurobindo Ghosh, Rasbihari Bose, Subhash Chandra Bose inspired his thoughts of a contemporary India, a mould where everyone will be equal. What you see in his works are narratives of socio-political situations of contemporary India. Every work of his is a play in progress, the characters living their part on...
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Min Wae Aung is all about detail and methodology, yet he makes his completed canvases seem as if they were the simplest thing to do. He is also one for bold expanses of color, minimum of fuss with his brushes, focussing only on the necessary. He paints with a gusto that is rare among post-modern syndrome artists. Min is from the State School of Fine Arts, Yangon, Myanmar.
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S Mark Rathinaraj introduced himself to the world of art through his strong, stark and solid lines. His works reflect the rural life of South India, bringing to the viewer the rustic beauty of ordinary people. Working on acrylic, pen and ink and charcoal, he inscribes the human form at a surreal level, reiterating the power of the mind, body, and soul. The colors are dynamic and reinforce the energy and spirit of an average Indian, who strives to succeed against all odds, and says “let the music play on”. “For the past 25 years, my search in my lines...
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Venkatesan is a self-taught artist hailing from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Venkatesan sees art in people, articles, and places that others around him pass up for the mundane. According to him, everyday life is what completes the bigger picture. Venkatesan’s first muse inarguably is nature and his immediate environs. He once said drawing those exact things made him feel complete. Nature is his primary teacher and the main source of inspiration for his works. As much as he learned from the luminaires in the field of art, he claims to have learned from nature – angles, the play of light, the movement of water, human body… ...
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Artist and Lecturer of Art, Vilvanathan's works are about exploring emotions in relation to the what we see around us. He expresses these emotions in a riot of colours, the way emotions are – raw, strong, wilful. He comes from the viewpoint that one sees what one wishes to see depending on how he relates to the object. His works therefore let you arrive at your own conclusions of what art is to you.
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