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Colourful tales on canvas Exhibition
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‘A lost and found diction for and of the people’ is on display at Vyloppilly Samskrithi Bhavan
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Photo: S. Mahinsha
A balm Subin Abraham and his painting of a scene from the zoo
With fine bold strokes on canvas, Subin Abraham’s paintings tell a story; a tale of how fisher folk need the sea and its bounty for their livelihood. “The sea was a part of my childhood days. I watched as the fishermen went out to sea and
came back with their catch. This is what I have depicted in my drawings,” says the artist, +a former student of Fine Arts College, Thiruvananthapuram.
Voyeuristic look
And based on his paintings, Subin gives the viewers an almost voyeuristic look into their lives. His narrative lines draw neat sketches of the day-to-day lives of the people. If the men are seen pulling in their catch from the sea, the women are busy waiting on the shore with baskets, gossiping as they wait for the men with their catch.
If there is no catch, the house has to go without food as shown through a painting with an empty basket and a forlorn house as a backdrop.
To sustain a living, the fisher folk often have to take up a second job. While a man is shown beating the drums at a shopping mall, a woman is seen weaving garlands of flowers.
Although catching fish is a team effort, that man is alone in the battle of survival is depicted by a single house surrounded by a thick forest; the odd one out in the series of paintings. Done in pencil, these sketches had the artist paying great attention to detail – right from the expression of joy and woe to the wrinkles and creases on the faces of his characters on the wall.
Picturesque landscapes in oil come as a balm for the city-weary eye. Soothing greens and blues fill the canvas as blossoming trees and emerald-green lakes manifest itself through his brush. One of the paintings that has a reflection of a tree falling on a placid lake is a scene taken from the city zoo, says Subin.
Twin paintings show a woman preparing for her portrait to be taken. If the first one has her applying eye liner on her eye, the other has her adjusting her shawl.
A series called ‘Studies’ is a potpourri of Subin’s paintings.
“It is a bit of this and that. As I feel one has to paint if one wants to imbibe a new style of painting, ‘Studies’ is a collection of his experiments.” And so you have a couple of Chinese-style paintings focussing on Nature, a picture of a sleeping child, sceneries that have captured the artist’s imagination, and as a tribute to Da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa,’ a close-up of her folded hands.
This collection of paintings titled ‘A lost and found diction for and of the people’ is on display at Vylloppilly Samskrithi Bhavan. The exhibition ends January 15.
LIZA GEORGE
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