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Decorative touch to divinity
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Parsharam V. Sutar's paintings are inspired by the delicate frescoes found on the walls of cave temples
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Pretty picture: one of Artist Parsharam Sutar's works on show at Vinyasa Art Gallery.
SKILL AND dexterity in bringing out the texture of stone and the decorative design of the frescoes found on the walls of the cave temples excavated in the Western Ghats, are amply evident in the paintings of Mumbai-based artist Parsharam V. Sutar. His style, rooted in academic realism and common to colonial institutions such as the J. J. School of Art, Mumbai, manifests itself with clarity in his handling of the medium and in the figurative renderings. His compositions exude an aura of sentimentality, exhibit picturesque qualities and are soft and gentle in their lyricism. The colours complement these characteristics with their subtle and subdued tonality.
Paintings with such themes have now become clichéd, but the grandiosity of India's cultural heritage seems to have left a deep impression on the artist's sensibilities, provoking him to re-invent them in another medium. And Parsharam has responded eloquently, evoking the monumentality of past monuments with their iconographic representations of Ganesha, Trivikrama, Mahishasuramardhini, Mahavira, Ganga, Buddha, Hanuman and Nandi.
Some of the compositional formats juxtapose the floral and the ornamental decorations of the ceiling frescos at Ajanta, with various forms of divinity. Ganesha is one such work rendered in acrylics on canvas and structured with a painterly representation of ornate, floral and sensuous borders effectively combining the massive form of the elephant god. The paintings at best exude charm and subliminal sobriety, making pretty pictures that can enliven the walls of any interior. The ubiquity of the themes and the subject matter allow for easy acceptance, requiring no different ways of seeing them on the part of the viewer.
The show is on at Vinyasa Art Gallery till August 20.
ASHRAFI S. BHAGAT
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