THE POWER OF COLOUR
Anand Prakash’s explorations are primarily concerned with
colour and secondarily with line. He just does not seem to ignore colour,
except in one of his acrylics, of six studies with veins of white on deep dark
declivities and as are witnessed in mountain gorges. This last mentioned
composition is certainly a fetching one evoking subliminal memories of high
lands. May be the painter could have included some few more such darker
speculations in this showing. At any rate he is apt at atmospheric colours on
space so as to sensitize his inner eye to the subtleties of abstract landscape
by improving his techniques for rendering colour he is absorbed also in the
structures of nature as much as her mood. The colours of nature are her mood.
In this way he ekes out clouds of colour, as it were, and in the process to
turn out diverse forms.
Anand Prakash’s
imagination works both in a
selective and inventive capacity. It can produce imagery from the store of a
good visual memory or even the depths of the amorphous subconscious mind. Else,
having some object as a starting point, it can visualize the possibilities of
pictorial rhythms. The fact that we express our feelings in terms of colour is
proof enough of the powerful effect that colour has upon as. Oh yes, we can do
so much with colours. And so they are the most powerful influences in our
lives. We rejoice in them except when the so called ‘Blue’ mood is on as. This
painters colours become symbols with feelings, and they arouse feelings. They
have the power to please or hurt us.
Prakash dwells on almost all the colours; red,
yellow, green, blue, violet etc. If we look upon all his work in turn our
imagination is flooded with different feeling states. The colour red is perhaps
of inflamed passions. But it can also have different significance on different
levels of physical, mental or the spiritual life. All colours similarly have
different shades, several of which introduce and modify the others accordingly
However, I
would not like to dogmatize about colours. This artist using them sends out
different messages, none of them far-fetched for not only does he comprehend
the symbolism of colours, but he also has the power to transmute the drab and
sordid and produce beauty from it, that is of to say, harmony quite as good
music does. The music of authentic music, and the music colour painting is
almost the same thing. So Anand prakash plays his piano of colours rather well.
We may hear more soothing scores from him in time to come.
Indian poet, art and literary critic
arts scholar,curator
KESHAV
MALIK
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Contemporary art is becoming incomprehensible to a common man, as
the artist today has forsaken the lines—known and familiar and trying to
capture the soul of forms instead.
Contemporary art neither offers any definite face nor the documentation
of the same. I believe a viewer can
share, in depth, with the artist his experience of looking at things when he is
more and more imaginative. In contemporary art, an artist tries to make himself
free from all those forms which can obstruct the transparency of his
imagination. Anand Prakash, as I feel, is the traveller of this road.
His journey
begins like recording, in sharp contrast, the cosmic motion and the spatial
stillness of the universe. He seems to create those rare and transient
universal incidents which are not yet seen by the unaided eyes. Anand’s process
of creation on canvas starts from this wide expanse of his aesthetic universe,
the process that unfolds numerous secrets concealed in the layers of forms. He
incorporates in his work, fragmented details, solidity and transparency that
give a unique character to his forms and textures.
Structure of
work is created with abstract forms. Space is mostly flat and two
dimensional. Lines—revealing and concealing,
create movement. They are sometimes linear while at the other, divide the
space. These lines are sometimes made
evident, at the other, concealed through the language of colours. This creates
the effect of movement. In this whole work of art, colours aglow with brilliant
light like a flash of lightning. Contra opposing colours, while intersecting
each other with transparency, create rhythmic colour forms.
Eminent
Visual artist- Yusuf (bhopal)
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In the area of painting, the debate and discussion about
representational art and abstract art is continuous and will be unresolved. I
find the unlimited freedom of playfulness of form, in abstract art, attracts
me. There are no limitations in the norms of pattern and form.
My paintings are reflections of natural things, although not
directly of nature. My work tells no
story, there is an absence of an obvious narrative; my forms have their own
dynamics and the textures and configurations create revelations. My paintings
are spontaneous and instinctive.
