An Indian artist, Jehangir Sabavala, created an artistic work titled 'Bird Forms 4, 1985' using oil on canvas. The artist signed and dated 'Sabavala'85' in English at the left bottom corner of the painting with a brush. An Indian artist, Jehangir Sabavala, created an artistic work titled 'Bird Forms 4, 1985' using oil on canvas. The artist signed and dated 'Sabavala'85' in English at the left bottom corner of the painting with a brush. It is now an exhibit in the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
- Identifier
- ngma-12758
- Material
- Oil, Canvas
- Note
- Born on August 23rd, 1922 in Mumbai, Jehangir Sabavala chose to paint and spend his lifetime in this lonely pursuit rather than indulge in worldly luxuries that his family could well afford. Sabavala graduated from the Sir J. J. School of Art, Bombay in 1944, followed by his training at the Heatherley School of Art, London and Academie Julian and the Academie Andre' Lhote, Paris. He also studied at the Academie Julian, Paris and the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris from 1953-57._x000D_Sabavala's journey of over six decades can be said to entail his figurative works from which the artist moved to making introspective inner scapes exhibiting the experienced rather than the physical. One can distinctly realize that the artist in his quest to attain and fathom the deep- rooted inner uncertainties has worked out analogous pictorial statements of other worldly nature. It is equally visible that the evolution and the process is far more important to the artist moving through vast, silent pictorial spaces enveloped and soaked in time with a nostalgic sense of memory. The realised elements of nature attain form and make their presence felt in eerie silence. The physical landscape transforms into metaphoric expanses in his search to fathom the infinite cosmos and its revelations._x000D__x000D_Sabavala, having been trained in France and England is thoroughly accomplished in the academic tradition and successfully amalgamated the mystic quality of native culture transforming it into an ethereal journey. His command over technique, over material, over colour and form, complements his conceptual and thematic concerns. Sabavala's works create an atmosphere, which is a blend of the urban and the metaphysical._x000D_Jehangir Sabavala was entitled with the 'Padma Shri' award by the Government of India in 1977, and the Lalit Kala Ratna by the President of India in 2007.
- Pages
- 100 X 150 cm
- Published in
- India
- Type
- Painting
