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VOLUME 1

A perception of art and artists

DR VED PRAKASH BHARDWAJ

The Art

(articles)

Aouther: Dr. Ved Prakash Bhardwaj

Publisher

Dr. Ved Prakash Bhardwaj

F-2/781, Shalimar Garden Ext. 1

Sahibabad (UP) 201006

Mob. 9871699401

Email: bhardwajvedprakash@gmail.com

Copywright: Dr. Ved Prakash Bhardwaj

Edition: 2026

ISBN: 978-93-345-4638-5

Content

1.

Abani

Sen 1

2.

Ambadas 5

3.

Amitava

Das

8

4.

Amrut

Patel

12

5. Anjoli Ela Menon

16

6.

Arpita

Singh

20

7.

Anupam

Sud

24

8.

Anwar

27

9.

Ganesh

Haloi

30

10. Gogi Saroj Pal

33

11. Gulam Mohammad Shekh

37

12.

Haku

Shah

42

13.

Himmat

Shah 45

14.

Jeram

Patel

49

15.

Jogen

Chowdhury

52

16. Krishen Khanna

58

17.

Lalitha

Lajami 61

18.

Madhavi

Parekh

65

19.

Meera

Mukharjee

71

20.

Mohan

Samant

75

21

Nasreen

Mohamdi

79

22.

Prabhakar

Kolte

83

23.

Prem

Singh

89

Preface

Over the course of my forty years in the with, and how personal experiences and sensitivities field of art, I have written thousands of are transformed into a visual language. In this sense, articles on art and reviewed numerous art writing, for me, has always been a living dialogue exhibitions. During this long journey, between the artist, the artwork, and the writer.

meeting artists, visiting their studios,

This book includes writings on some of the

seeing their work closely, and writing about their artists I have encountered during this long journey.

creative practices have been an integral part of my These essays were written at different points in time and engagement with art. For me, conversations with therefore also reflect something of my own experiences artists have never been merely a means of gathering and of the artistic landscape of the periods in which they information; they have been an important part of the were written. The next volume will carry this journey process of understanding their art.

forward, bringing together writings on other artists Throughout this journey, I have had the and their work. Together, the two volumes will offer a opportunity to encounter and write about the work of broad view of my nearly forty-year-long engagement many significant artists of modern and contemporary and dialogue with modern and contemporary Indian Indian art. M. F. Husain, S. H. Raza, Akbar Padamsee, art.

Prabhakar Kolte, Rameshwar Broota, Abani Sen,

Yet this book does not claim to offer a final

Arpita Singh, A. Ramachandran, Ram Kumar, Amitava conclusion or a comprehensive history of Indian Das, Jai Zharotia, Ambadas, Jehangir Sabavala, Sudhir art. It is, rather, a journey through artists and their Patwardhan, Dilip Ranade, Manu Parekh, Shobha work as I have encountered and perceived them—a Broota, Anjolie Ela Menon, Arpana Caur, Sanat Kar, journey shaped by memories, meetings, conversations, Jogen Chowdhury, Veer Munshi, Latika Katt, Himmat disagreements, attractions, and a continually evolving Shah, Hemraj, Jagannath Panda, G. R. Iranna, R. M. attempt to understand art.

Palaniappan, Madhavi Parekh, Devyani Krishna,

Ultimately, these writings are a record of a

Akhilesh, Manish Pushkale, Sanjay Bhattacharya, personal engagement with art. They reflect not only the Neeraj Goswami, Vijendra Sharma, Saba Hasan, Vivan artists and their creations, but also the changing nature Sundaram, Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, Nitasha Jain, of my own response to them over the years. Time has Devi Lal Patidar, Anwar Khan, Asit Kuamr Patnaik, altered the art world, the artists, and inevitably, the way Narendra Pal Singh, Pratul Dash, Tapan Dash, Nawal I look at art. What remains constant is the desire to Kishor, Vijayraj Bodhankar, Dilip Sharma, Bipin look closely, to question, and to understand.

Kumar, Sanju Das, Ragini Sinha, and many others have These writings are offered not as the final word been part of this journey. Alongside these established on the artists discussed here, but as my perceptions artists, I have also continued to meet and write about of their work and their creative journeys. They are numerous young and emerging artists. They all artists fragments of a long conversation with Indian art—a are not in this book. Some of them will be coming in conversation that has continued for nearly forty years my next parts of this book.

and, I hope, will continue beyond the pages of this The art of these artists, and the conversations I book.

have had with them, have continually influenced and enriched my own understanding of art. While writing Dr Ved Prakash Bhardwaj about an artist, I have never been interested merely in evaluating the work. I have tried to understand how the artist sees, what questions he or she engages “Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”

Pablo Picasso