The Art by Dr Ved Prakash Bhardwaj - HTML preview

The Art

perceive them more through the heart. Women

large-scale painting could represent any major

are generally considered more sensitive, and this city or capital in any country, because at a global sensitivity can sometimes become a limitation.

level, the situation appears more or less similar But this does not apply to Arpita Singh, because everywhere today.

she has always viewed her time and society not

Changing contexts over time are also an

only through the sensitivities of a woman but

important aspect of her work. On the one hand,

also at an intellectual level. The result is a body she expresses the growing pressure of the market of paintings in which she comments on the social on human life in works such as “Buy Two, Get and political contradictions of her time.

Two Free,” while on the other, in a mural such as This becomes evident in her later “Wish Dream,” she gives form simultaneously to works, where, alongside household objects, the material and cultural aspirations of our time.

we prominently encounter weapons, cars, Similarly, she gives space in her artistic world to aeroplanes, soldiers, and often assassins ordinary subjects such as “Prayer,” “Classified hiding behind bushes, aiming at people who are File,” “Classified Advertisement,” and “Breakfast.”

sitting or passing by. Here, she simultaneously

Alongside these, various words—sometimes

combines the toys of childhood memories—such

complete and sometimes fragmented—and

as weapons, cars, aeroplanes and bouquets—

numbers also appear in her works. However,

with her mature imagination to create a broad

they do not remain merely symbols; rather, they

engagement with contemporary concerns. An

become the foundation of the landscape in which

extension of this can be seen in the paintings in the artist constructs a story. As an artist, she which she offers an artistic commentary on the views life in its entirety. Therefore, her works structural contradictions of metropolitan cities rarely present isolated images. Even when a and the social injustice embedded within them.

single figure appears alone in a painting, she

In one such painting, she takes Delhi as her focus creates such an environment around it that the

and brings together administrative, political figure ceases to remain isolated and instead and social contradictions. The contradictions of appears to represent a much larger community.

Delhi’s development that she expresses in this

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