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S H Raza

No automatic alt text available.The Master of “Bindu”, the Point is no more (23 July 2016). S H Raza left a lot, in terms of legacy, thought, technique and conception.
"You have to concentrate on one idea. I usually offer one advice to young men, concentrate on one woman. One woman gives everything. One idea is sufficient for an artist. For me, the 'bindu' has been a vast subject with its variations throughout my life."
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The price hype of his paintings does not touch his persona — a soft-spoken creative being who defies the vagaries of age and flesh. Bound to a wheelchair after a fall, Raza was busy pushing new frontiers till two and half months back.
"I want to explore 'Roopadhyatma (abstract beauty)' in my art. It is another spiritual form of abstraction which is beyond the conventional icons of triangles and the 'bindu'. The concept emerges from the dot... And I have to find my own way to reach it," Raza said.
The artist, who returned to India after spending nearly six decades in France, works "for two to three hours in his studio in the capital every day".
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"I don't paint a lot, though I'm very keen to work. At times, I work for an hour in the morning and sometimes for three in the afternoon. I have assistants who help me move the canvases around," the artist said.
Few months back after finishing one of his paintings, he was happy like a kid, told his near-ones “ Yes I have finished another”.
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Nearly 4 years back I was lucky enough to interact him in Lalit Kala, New Delhi, one of his line always vibrates in my mind “ Bindu (Point) and Shunyo (Empty) are most important Prabuddha in our life and art, though they are highly neglected”.
Salute Sir, Salute. You are living in your works for us, for the art lovers and for the world of aesthetics and sensation.
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The artist, inspired by Rabindranath Tagore was honored with the Padma Shri in 1981, Padma Bhushan in 2007 and Padma Vibhushan in 2013.
S. H. Raza 22 February 1922 to 23 July 2016.

23 July 2016

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