Sign In / Register
Make This My Home Page | Feedback |RSS
You are here: IE »   Story

Garden of delight

  • Print
  • Mail This Article
  • Comments
  • Add to favorites
  • A Ramachandran, a reticent painter from the old school, has a big solo

    His colourful narrative of paintings have decorated the living rooms of homes and sat on auction podiums where they fetched handsome prices. Now, the veteran from Kerala is showing a large body of works that include large oils and three-dimensional sculptural forms that reflect his concerns of line and detailing.

    “I had moved from urban reality to embrace a traditional style, when a tribal group in Rajasthan with their vibrant ethos gripped my imagination,” says the artist who once taught in Jamia Milia Islamia on traditional murals in Kerala.

    He fused his knowledge of the murals with his fascination of the tribes and came up with a unique blend of art that is distinctly his own.

    His work is often allegorical and the densely vegetative lotus pond is one of his favourite metaphors for the matrix of life. Beautiful and decorative, this ecosystem gives birth to hybrid creatures, a goat with a woman’s head, a winged seductress or a newborn babe wrapped in the folds of a lotus-leaves. Often we see the artist rendering a mocking self portrait of himself as an owl. “I use Indian mythology but it is important for me to re-contextualise them which is why I often include a self-portrait,” says the artist who also has executed a series of individual portraits of village belles facing the viewer in a frontal and inquisitive manner, as if they were curious about the world outside the canvas.

    Ads by Google

    ... contd.

    Next12
    Comments
    Post comment

    Be the first to comment.

    Post a Comment
    Name:
    Email:
    Title:
    Maximum characters allowed     
    Comment:
    TERMS OF USE:
    The views, opinions and comments posted are your, and are not endorsed by this website. You shall be solely responsible for the comment posted here. The website reserves the right to delete, reject, or otherwise remove any views, opinions and comments posted or part thereof. You shall ensure that the comment is not inflammatory, abusive, derogatory, defamatory &/or obscene, or contain pornographic matter and/or does not constitute hate mail, or violate privacy of any person (s) or breach confidentiality or otherwise is illegal, immoral or contrary to public policy. Nor should it contain anything infringing copyright &/or intellectual property rights of any person(s).
    I agree to the terms of use.