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Breaking art barriers
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A self-taught artist shows evolution of style
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ART AND THE MAN Syed Ali Arif with his works
The barriers that separate commercial art and art are crumbling.
As a bunch of graphic designers use their Photoshop tricks, pixel noise, and crunch the colours of the world into RGB, the snobbish art cognoscenti is having a relook at the people who butter their bread with pamphlets, brochures, visiting cards and other so-called low-brow creative pursuits. Syed Ali Arif, a self-taught artist, is one among the new breed who is making this happen.
At Lakshana, which has mounted a new solo show of the Hyderabad artist, you get the feel of an evolving artist.
The range includes both abstract works that are not too abstract (i.e. a layperson can identify the basic images) to works where portraiture makes an abstract appearance. The materials used to create the images include pastels, oils, acrylic and charcoal. Though the range of work shows the influences that Syed has been under at one time or the other, his choice of colours and the technique marks him out as his own man.
One of the work, titled Unwinding could as well have been the work of Bawa, while the portraits with elongated necks, the work of another Hyderabadi artist.
It is only when he is doing abstracts that Syed moves into a world of his own where a Fantasy can have images with a muscular horse, wheels, waves and leaves.
The acceptance Syed has in the art world can be seen from the fact that three of his works mounted in the current show have already been sold through saffronart.com. Bravo!
SERISH NANISETTI
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