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Artist's monologue
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Archana Sonti's miniatures have a Spartan feel
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PAINT PASSION Artwork at the exhibition
How do you talk to yourself? If you are sane: quietly, if you are bipolar: loudly, but if you are an artist then you put your thoughts on a canvas and add a few words for good measure. Archana Sonti who is showing her works at the Alankritha Art Gallery at Madhapur not only talks to her audience using both brushstrokes but also adds a dollop of weighty words onto the canvas to communicate. Extreme human forms float through the set of miniatures, mostly water colours but also ink, charcoal, oils and acrylics. "I discovered the extreme human abstraction while I was studying and they keep flitting in and out of my canvas," says Archana.
Chinese connection
Almost Chinese in form (i.e. they are worked like the elemental inks spreading on the rice paper), the paintings detail chairs, trees, birds, swings and human forms with an overwhelming background of nothingness. Then there are other more abstruse works where Archana uses her canvas as a paper to pen her thoughts. The poetical lines lend a meaning far beyond what is communicated with the colours. "The lines follow over welling thoughts, emotions and passion. They are there more to render my world on paper than to talk to others. But if they communicate with others, then my purpose is doubly served," says Archana.
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