…. Curator’s Pen by Prabuddha Ghosh

Tyeb Mehta – A passionate artist with incomparable intense thoughts By Prabuddha Ghosh Born in Kapadwanj, Gujarat on 26th July 1925, Tyeb Mehta has become one of the most famous Indian artists of his generation. His family had strong business ties to popular Indian cinema, and therefore considered a film career for him after his graduation. Having given up on the first film, which Taib still says was "the first time I was obsessed", he joined the company in 1947 and graduated in 1952. Over the years, Tyeb was very reluctant to talk about his job. Tyeb's work reflects the underlying violence that was part of his childhood. He remembered seeing a young man killed on the street under a window. A few days after seeing it, he fell ill with a fever, and the image haunted him until the last days of his life. All manner of violence, even screaming. "Broken forms entered Tyeb's work, flesh severely mutilated, mutilated and skinned. Another theme Tyeb incorporated into h...

 Syed Haider Raza, most celebrated modernist and spiritualist Indian painter.... Syed Haider Raza, one of India's most prominent modernists, created an artistic language that was founded in Indian culture but also affected by his worldview. The point “bindu” would become the epic-entre of his cosmos in the background of a huge space, the epi-centre of his maze of geometric patterns as well as his earlier abstract landscapes, through which he would introduce the world to Indian Mystical iconography. On his death anniversary (23 July), we look at his influences and how his art and he traversed borders to become a global phenomenon. Raza’s work evolved from expressionistic landscapes to abstracts. His work reflects his classical French schooling at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris as well as his exposure to post-war American abstract expressionism. His later work was replete with his love for Indian iconography, philosophy, music and poetry. Raza is said to have started painting ever...

“A A Raiba - A lively Indian poetic artist” Abdul Aziz Raiba’s life is an excellent text book for all art lovers, connoisseurs and enthusiasts. It was a daily diary of approximately 70 years. He spent most of his life in a room in central Bombay, where the canvases exhibited were made of a specially blended jute blend and painted in different mediums. After that he moved to a distant suburb of Mumbai, where he spent the rest of his life. His works are part of important collections of different collectors in India and abroad. In his paintings you can found the flat figures are initially surrounded by thick black lines drawn in charcoal as a sort of special effect, which was the basic of his technic. Raiba was educated at the Bombay School, a revivalist school influenced by modernism. But he began his independent career away from the Bombay School and the Progressive Artists Group. Raiba was truly a humble artist who did not believe in commercializing his own art and creations. Unlik...