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Rhythm Of Forms And Colors
A prominent artist Surendra Pradhan showcases the rituals Newari culture and nature through his paintings
By THAKUR AMGAI
An artist becomes an artist when he/she can see things that are not visible to the normal eyes or can express what normal minds cannot. This is exactly what senior artist Surendra Pradhan has done in his latest paintings. The scenes he has portrayed are normal day to day rituals ranging from milking cow, carrying loads, a barber cutting hair or a woman putting on a tika looking at her image behind the mirror.
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Pradhan's painting :Three-dimensional depiction |
But what is unique in this compendium of art works is that he has used human morphological forms to depict the normal scenes. To show daily rituals seen in the street such as a beggar begging or people playing madal and other musical instruments to showing deities like Ganesh and natural beings like duck, Pradhan uses three dimensional geometrical shapes cordoned by bold lines formed from mature swirls of the brushes of the skilled hands.
Such kind of paintings, which use the three dimensional geometric shapes, had been popular as cubistic-trend since a long time in European art.
Pradhan’s use of color and framing is also impressive. The canvas is covered by the geometrical shapes themselves and the entire canvas board shows the scene of one distance projection. Likewise, the colors he use are bright and contrasting to impart a great picture.
The paintings are semi-abstract. They do not have ambiguity in the meaning of the scenes. However, the simple scenes are expressed using different styles.
The exhibition held at Buddha Art Gallery has 28 paintings and will be on the show till December 9.
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