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Celebrating the feminine form through art

Two noted female artists -- Sangeeta. K. Murthy and Savita Kumar -- with distinctive styles have come together to celebrate the feminine form through their art on the occasion of International Woman's Day and on Thursday mounted an 11-day exhibition titled `The Art Show' at Triveni Kala Sangam.

Sangeeta in her exhibited work here visualises women as an embodiment of power. With the focus on the inner life and emotional reality of women, her work, she claims, is very personal and yet at the same time conveys the emotions, spiritual journey, and challenges for every woman.

"The artist uses human figures as a ruse to her poetic use of colour and play of multivariate texture. Her use of colours is fascinating. She has captured the poses and moods of women in stoic silence. Texture is a significant element in her work that she has achieved by using various techniques. Her paintings try to project an enquiry into the lives of women, the pressures and the constraints they encounter and the sense of solidarity that brings them together," says art historian Avaneet Gandhi.

The other exhibiting artist at the show Savita in her work uses warm and fiery colours including reds, crimsons, oranges and yellows surrounded in abstract flow with green and grey. "Her work is metaphoric of her desire to bring a complementary and balancing force to human existence. Savita's aesthetic preoccupation rests on co-relation between cultural memories where trees have human sensitivity and acquire surrealistic human forms or where the cyclical flow of elements-creation, nurture, dissolution and rejuvenation. All of this has man at the centre. It is a deeper feeling to be part of nature that the present day urban-industrial society yearns for and Savita's art is deeply concerned with that," says Vijay Kumar, director curator European Artists' Association, Germany.

-- Bindu Shajan Perappadan

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