“ Of all the acts abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colours, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.”
- Wassily Kandinsky
A triumphant luminosity, a pre-dominantly blue, red or a black canvas with a stroke of yellow, ochre or white, brush strokes seem to have been chiseled with a knife providing an edge to the paint layers coaxing enough thought on the canvas would sum up Chandan’s paintings in one go. But the mystery starts revealing with each time you look at his paintings there after.
With each new glance, a new story unfolds. As Chandan says, “ …my painting is a hidden form of art…like some emotions of human beings. It stands with friendship, with love and at last the peace of mind. Paintings are also the same.”
Abstraction in art flourishes in a climate of fear, anxiety or disillusion, from a feeling of alienation in a seemingly arbitrary world at the mercy of forces beyond one’s control. Recalling the history, abstract art began in 1910 in a war struck world. Militarism and socio-economic-political tensions led to the search for order and clarity in one’s own expressions hence in art- a reality in one’s own making.
Even though the world today is not “war-struck” any more but the promises of technology in terms of growth and development have dehumanized man. Pragmatism and individualism compels one to search a simpler reality of order and harmony. In his works, Emotions of myself, Chandan has wanted to escape from the complexities, discords and impending destruction. A successful attempt has been made to create the lyrical rhythm of our lives.
The compositions on his canvas represent moods and feelings rather than objects. He truly says that everything can be visualized, even the color of water. But one cannot see one’s inner pains or sorrows. Chandan has tried to express all of that through his canvases.
He created an illusion of movements through his free hand circular brush strokes similar to that of the spiral of our lives. With a color palette of solid colours, the artist manages to provide a transparent texture on the canvas. The appeal of this series of works lies in the subtlety of design and aesthetically balanced precision. Thick colours of different proportions produce a drama of a rhythmic effect of advancing or receding movement.
In a quest to understand his own emotions, he has painted this series. By the means of pure colours and the pure relationships of lines, simple relationships have been given a sense of beat creating the asymmetrical balance of life forms…
Shilpi Goswami
- Wassily Kandinsky
A triumphant luminosity, a pre-dominantly blue, red or a black canvas with a stroke of yellow, ochre or white, brush strokes seem to have been chiseled with a knife providing an edge to the paint layers coaxing enough thought on the canvas would sum up Chandan’s paintings in one go. But the mystery starts revealing with each time you look at his paintings there after.
With each new glance, a new story unfolds. As Chandan says, “ …my painting is a hidden form of art…like some emotions of human beings. It stands with friendship, with love and at last the peace of mind. Paintings are also the same.”
Abstraction in art flourishes in a climate of fear, anxiety or disillusion, from a feeling of alienation in a seemingly arbitrary world at the mercy of forces beyond one’s control. Recalling the history, abstract art began in 1910 in a war struck world. Militarism and socio-economic-political tensions led to the search for order and clarity in one’s own expressions hence in art- a reality in one’s own making.
Even though the world today is not “war-struck” any more but the promises of technology in terms of growth and development have dehumanized man. Pragmatism and individualism compels one to search a simpler reality of order and harmony. In his works, Emotions of myself, Chandan has wanted to escape from the complexities, discords and impending destruction. A successful attempt has been made to create the lyrical rhythm of our lives.
The compositions on his canvas represent moods and feelings rather than objects. He truly says that everything can be visualized, even the color of water. But one cannot see one’s inner pains or sorrows. Chandan has tried to express all of that through his canvases.
He created an illusion of movements through his free hand circular brush strokes similar to that of the spiral of our lives. With a color palette of solid colours, the artist manages to provide a transparent texture on the canvas. The appeal of this series of works lies in the subtlety of design and aesthetically balanced precision. Thick colours of different proportions produce a drama of a rhythmic effect of advancing or receding movement.
In a quest to understand his own emotions, he has painted this series. By the means of pure colours and the pure relationships of lines, simple relationships have been given a sense of beat creating the asymmetrical balance of life forms…
Shilpi Goswami
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