The Art by Dr Ved Prakash Bhardwaj - HTML preview

The Art

everything from terracotta to metal, which material five to ten years. So this is not really a new shift, but do you connect with the most?

rather a continuation of the way I have always worked.

Himmat Shah: Clay is my favourite. It offers

You started with painting, but at a time when immense flexibility and an expansive scope for artistic the market for paintings in India was growing, expression. While many artists work across different you transitioned completely into sculpture—even mediums, I have chosen to focus primarily on clay though there was no real market for it. What led to in recent years. That said, whenever I felt that a clay this shift?

work would translate well into bronze or wood, I Himmat Shah: While I was painting, I realized

experimented with those materials as well.

that relief work was becoming an increasingly

Unfortunately, my health no longer allows me

important element in my art. This led me to explore to work as extensively as I once did. That is why this sculpture, and I found it to be a more effective medium exhibition features works that I have saved over the for my expression. Around that time, I created a mural past twenty to twenty-five years. In fact, I had no plans in Ahmedabad, and as I continued to work with to exhibit them, but Mamta ji from Anant Art Gallery sculpture, I became completely immersed in it.

insisted, and that is how this exhibition came about.

However, now that I am in Rajasthan, I have

After moving from Delhi to Jaipur, your decided to return to painting as well. My style will approach to exhibitions changed. Was this due to remain unchanged; I do not intend to experiment much.

circumstances or a personal choice?

The historical monuments and intricate craftsmanship Himmat Shah: At seventy-three, I no longer

of Rajasthan inspire me, and I see immense possibilities have the energy to hold exhibitions frequently. Instead, in engaging with this artistic heritage.

I prefer to concentrate on my work. Even earlier, my

Your sculptures have a strong abstract

exhibitions were not frequent; they took place every quality, often suggesting both known and unknown 46