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Painting dreams

A work by Pallee

We all are dreamers and we dream to make dreams part of ourreality. Renowned artist and alumnus of College of Arts Pallee makes them come alive on his canvas. He is an artist who paints with his heart, not just his brain.

His paintings were showcased recently at the gallery of the Press Club of India, New Delhi. The best part about his paintings is that the viewer can make his own story out of them, which can be very different from the painter’s thoughts about that painting. Pallee, who paints in acrylic and oil, feels there is a world beyond earth, which is more fascinating then reality. His paintings, he says, are “surreal, something above reality.” Even his bike is like a canvas as he has painted it with his dreams. He says, “Society has given us so many things and I pay back through my paintings.”

A painting like Lust for Life makes an interesting art piece as it shows our lust for achieving everything. Another example is Enigma, which looks like colours splashed on a canvas but tells you a story of its own. He likes to play with the colours first and then gives them the shape of his dreams. While events and characters out of the purview of common experience find their way to his canvases, like an ‘alien’ coming to earth and the end of the world, he also depicts problems of society like riots, rapes etc.

Commenting on today’s art scenario he says there has been a boom in this sector. But thanks to commercialisation, the distinction between genuine and fake work and artists has dissolved. “They have marketed their work so well that it fetches high prices in sales and auctions,” he adds. But he also says that an artist should be true to his work and not worry about its monetary value.

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