It is a modern painting in which the artist has depicted an orchard, with a range of strokes in tonal variations capturing the rhythm and pattern in the image. It is created by Avinash Chandra using oil on board. It is now an exhibit in the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
- Identifier
- ngma-02008
- Material
- Oil, Board
- Note
- Born in Shimla, the highly acclaimed artist Avinash Chandra studied art at Delhi Polytechnic from 1947-52 and later taught in the same institution until 1956. During his days at the Delhi Polytechnic as a student Chandra joined the Delhi Shilpi Chakra and was an integral part of it until the culmination of the group. It was in 1954 that the artist won an award at the first National Exhibition of Art, New Delhi and soon left for London following the footsteps of artists like F. N. Souza and others. The artist only after a year of his stay held a solo exhibition at the Imperial Institute, London, 1957 and soon became one of the first Indian artists to have gained widespread recognition. The 60's was a turning point in his career and he became the first Indian Artist to have exhibited at the Documenta in Kassel. He also exhibited later the USA, Israel, Canada and the Hayward Gallery in London, 1989. Chandra apart from being a painter also was a muralist and two of his excellent works adorn the walls of the Indian Tea Center, London, made with fibre-glass and the Chappell Music Publishing Company, London, 1966, made with glass. His early artworks, shown in the exhibitions of the Delhi Shilpi include cityscapes, townships and landscapes arranging the forms in his random and irregular style. The artist's distinctive preoccupation with motifs like the sun and the moon in his works is a visual treat which he painted in a swirling fashion over his cityscapes. In the early years of the 1960's he changed his style and started focusing more on the female body using the oil medium. He soon started to make these complex, uncontrollable interlocked figures- infused with sexual imagery. He has developed this style and created many of these extravagant wild images.
- Pages
- 152 X 91 cm
- Published in
- India
- Type
- Painting
