HYDERABAD: The works executed on acrylic sheet with acrylic colours, presently on display at Nehru Art Gallery, have been painted by young artists pursuing their final year studies in painting at JNAFAU. These paintings rendered on the reverse side of the sheet reflect a direct, strong and highly impressive inspiration of the works by senior artist, Rajeshwar Rao. And rightly so, recently the artist spent three days with the students in the college and unveiled to them the intricate aspects of his beloved medium on which he has been working from many years. The artist has carved a niche for himself from his consistently strong and socially relevant works.
In the presence of the renowned artist, the students painted their works and have come up with a wide array of interesting series of expressions. The young artists have not only excelled in handling the medium perfectly but have also explored their respective concepts and ideas with an unsurpassable maturity that enthralls.
The works by artist Varsha Shashikala manifest multiple anecdotes picked up from daily to day life in a stylistically rich manner. In a couple of works she creates an interesting depth, with the help of the elements picked up from the interior of a house, like table, bed , chair, curtains and objects. These create a kind of momentum that imbibes multiple allegories. Some of her works are based on childhood innocence and so the compositions contain a child keenly observing a tiny bird perched on a pot, a watermelon, and other objects.
Subhashini also brings forth the anecdotes picked up from mundane life amalgamated with contemplative strengths in her paintings. Some of her works discuss, emphasise and portray the intensity of mental pressure of academic studies on children. The over-sized school bags and the books in the works are woven as appropriate metaphors for her expression. Another glimpse of day-to-day life gets exemplified in a remarkable manner in one of the works by T Tavithi Raju. The artist creates a realistic composition inspired by the hustle bustle of a crowded street. Multiple elements and figures get accommodated into the composition at the same time. The buildings and other elements in the background space, exist in a weightless stance and are depicted swaying and bending in varied directions. There is an undercurrent of fantasy in the work that enthralls.
A very interesting work by artist M Ramani contains the figure of a girl and a tiger. From the way, the girl sits on the back of the tiger, one is instantly reminded of Goddess Durga. The work succeeds in captivating the viewer because of its intensity to connect to the contemporary period as well as to the age old mythological, divine powers.
The show will be on at Nehru Art Gallery, JNAFAU till December 9.