Art for every customer
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Customised artwork, to suit individual tastes, is fast becoming popular among houseowners and corporates
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TAKE YOUR PICK: Images drawn and coloured as the customer wants.
BORED WITH plain walls? Decorate your home with customised art. Now you can add colours to your walls with your own concept. Art lovers can have artists bring in the desired elements to their wall hangings.
Customised art is a concept wherein art is created to suit the tastes of individuals and corporates. Many believe art is expensive and find it difficult to own an original painting that matches exactly the interiors of their houses. Customised artworks are increasingly being considered as a substitute.
Customised artworks, to suit individual tastes, is fast becoming popular among houseowners and corporates
A baby
"It is like having a baby who looks exactly the way you want him to," says Ramesh Magar of Magnitude art gallery in Jayanagar. A given space is studied well and the client is consulted before the idea is put on canvas. The art will have to do much more than just fill up the space. "It will have to please the eyes of the onlookers and it has to talk about the space and about the idea of the company," Mr. Ramesh says. Customised art, according to him, is the best way to reach out to people and change the age-old notion that artists paint for art's sake.
The big mixed-media (where material such as wood, metal, sand, stones etc are used along with paint) artworks are the real solution for decorating your walls these days. These artworks are the combination of several things: paintings, woodcarvings and metal embossing.
Roman style
The size of artworks ranges from 0.5 m X 0.5 m to 2 m X 2.5 m, according to Ganesh of Gem of Arts, a gallery in Sadashivanagar. Bigger ones too are possible. Embossed copper, brass and silver works are used on an elegant oil-painted canvas. Wooden frames have Roman-style carvings and the carved flowers on the frame are decorated with semi-precious stones, if you choose so, says Radhika of Gem of Arts.
You can also address your desire for paintings from a wide collection of original paintings based on different themes such as Lord Ganesha in various avatars, innate strength of rural women in different roles, the world of IT, architectural wonders and zodiac signs.
"We have a team of specialised artists in their own art forms and we definitely match the expectations and the ideas of our customers," Mr. Ramesh said. "We do not reproduce original artworks, we only do the original portraits and works that the customers wish to have."
Popular choices
Pportraits of Lord Ganesha are the most famous and hundreds of varieties of the Lord can be done. Mixed art, architectural designs, landscapes, abstracts of Indian arts are widely popular.
A 3-D piece called "Entry to Wisdom," which measures 5 m X 4 m and took nearly 75 days to complete, is the attraction in this gallery. A 8 m X 4 m painting of a beach had a realistic finish of beach sand.
Conservative people choose from different forms of paintings of gods and those with modern concepts choose from wide variety of abstracts and innovative designs.
Murals can also be done in fibre, wood and terracotta materials and the prices depend on the customers' choice. They can even opt for a life size portrait. To enhance the quality even imported paints are used. If the art lovers want to enrich the frames, they can choose frames imported from Italy. Wood used in frames include rose wood and teak wood. For more durability in the paintings, acrylic paints are used apart from oil paints, imported paints, foils, gold and silver paints.
Mixed media artwork is made more special by new-look frames when compared to ordinary canvas paintings. Light plywood, acrylic boards are used in these artworks which ensures that these paintings are lighter.
If you want to gift paintings to our beloved ones you can have a logo with your name or your company's name so that it is cherished for a long time.
Mr. Ramesh says that a brief input of clients psyche and an elaborate study, expert advice towards the kind of art required is made before making an original art piece.
Perfect
Customised art is the perfect way to decorate any space. With art so original and enticing, so close to you, do you still need a reason to think of an empty wall? Do you still think a space has nothing to say?
A mini artwork may cost you Rs. 3,000. But the cost can shoot up sharply depending on what you want. It is expensive. Galleries such as Gem of Arts let you pay in instalments. Some banks may even finance your schemes.
MALLIKARJUN SWAMY
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