The Art by Dr Ved Prakash Bhardwaj - HTML preview

The Art

Anwar

Anwar Khan (b. 1964, Ambha, Madhya

Pradesh), widely known simply as

Anwar, is a distinguished figure in

Anwar occupies a rare and compelling position

among contemporary abstract artists. In a field

often divided between mathematical precision

and the unpredictability of chance, Anwar has created Indian abstraction. Unlike many of

a middle path—conscious and deliberate, yet open his peers trained in major art schools,

to intuitive resonance. The unplanned and accidental he pursued his passion more humbly,

have very little role in his abstraction. Instead, his studying in Gwalior and completing a

work exists in a world of quiet control, where form and National Diploma in Fine Arts in 1985.

material engage with one another with philosophical intent.

After moving to Bhopal, drawn by its

Working in oil on canvas, he achieves a remarkable thriving artistic community, he found a

softness that places his work in a distinctive emotional lifelong base and the mentorship of J.

space. He divides the picture plane into a few broad Swaminathan, who introduced him to

sections and brings together numbers in some areas Sufism and its philosophy of love and

and other motifs in others. What emerges across the light.

expansive surface is not a narrative composition but 27