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Weft and weave of life
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Life as it is captured at its dramatic best
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Seeing life Bringing alive the emotions
The painting appears as if the artist has not dipped the brush in the acrylics but into the computer palate of RGB colours where the colours have an inherent luminosity and the black doesn’t exist at all.
They appear as if the artist is seeing life through an infrared lens where the images get colours depending on the temperature. But that’s the impression you cannot continue to have if you see the 55 canvases are now on show at the Kalahita at Panjagutta.
The series is titled Reflecting Shadows, an onamatopoea of reality if there was ever one. So what Srinivas does is catch his subjects, the village folks in their tide of life, and still them with his detailing and observation. No detail is too small, a woman scratching her head in thought is mighty different from one scratching due to lice, Srinivas shows the difference as two women stand and wait while talking. They could be either at a bus stand or at a village haat.
It is the great democracy of life that Srinivas shows by focussing on the microcosm, if the subject’s pose and placement isn’t enough to show the world, then Srinivas uses a different symbolism to do that. He makes the subject wear his/her surroundings as if it were, hence the title, Reflecting Shadows.
The reflected reality can range from the village pond with its lotus plants and blooms to a fish reflected on a goat kept by a villager. The artist shows his deftness and skill when he does the sketches. Using just shades of grey he brings alive the canvas by freezing motion. if a woman is walking in the sun in a brisk manner, not just the shadow but also the furrow on her face is captured.
SERISH NANISETTI
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