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The artist from Chennai is enamoured by the feminine
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Govinda Rao’s Sita
Imagine Rubens. Imagine the chubby women Rubens painted in their decadent glory as they lolled in their beds and twiddled their toes. Change the skin colour, ignore the law of proportions and you have the works of Govinda Rao, the architect from Chen
nai who paints during his leisure time. The multimedia works of Govinda Rao are now on show at the Shrishti Art Gallery.
The pencil strokes are sharp and confident, what else do you expect from an architect? Sticking to the feminine form where he dabbles with both religious themes as well as social themes, Govinda’s women let the flesh hang out. There is no lusciousness or come-hither sensuality, but I-am-stuck-here kind of expression on the faces of the women.
More jarringly, there is no sense of proportion or geometry, the result: Some of the women’s toes are longer than the fingers, neither the hands taper nor do the legs taper, they stay the same girth from trunk to the extremities. The colour palate is subdued keeping in view the Indian skin tones. If the colours are subdued, not so the imagination of the artist where he revels in the sensual where the subjects are clothed but with all the fleshly form etched out in great detail. “Painting is my passion, architecture is what I pursue for living,” says Govinda Rao, who has designed some of the well known buildings in Chennai.
SERISH NANISETTI
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