The Art by Dr Ved Prakash Bhardwaj - HTML preview

The Art

forms he created possess an inherent character and returned to burning wood, this time combining it structure that constantly evoke a variety of familiar with glass, in order to discover himself in a new form.

and unfamiliar images.

By challenging the illusion of the supremacy of the Jeram Patel challenged the certainty and clarity medium, he was also, in a broader sense, questioning of external, pictorial experience. He created forms in the growing importance and apparent necessity of which a sense of restlessness appears not only at the material things in life. A medium is ultimately a formal level but also at psychological and emotional material; its significance depends on how, how much, levels. In his work, form and formlessness seem to and why an artist chooses to use it. It is therefore dissolve into one another.

worth noting that despite the differences between his For Jeram Patel, who worked with waterproof

various media, there is a fundamental similarity in ink on paper, the medium was never an end in itself.

the underlying forms of his works. This continuity Rather, he often seemed to rediscover himself by becomes an essential part of his artistic identity.

changing the medium. At one point, his burnt-wood His art, which maintains a remarkable balance

works established his reputation, but then, almost between the economy of material and the abundance suddenly, he seemed to reject the identity associated of creativity, is more concerned with the inner form of with them. He began working with enamel paint on contemporary human beings than with their external wood, and when that too started to become identified appearance. The external form may be anything— with his artistic persona, he turned to ink on paper, beautiful or distorted—but the true form is internal. It taking his work to a new level.

is the beauty of the inner self that ultimately makes the Yet Patel did not accept being judged by a single individual, and society as a whole, beautiful.

standard or having one particular style or medium In Patel’s works made with waterproof ink

permanently identified with his art. Thus, when art on paper, the forms that emerge sometimes appear lovers and collectors were deeply attracted to his ink human and at other times resemble animals. There is a works on paper, he abandoned them and once again little of the animal in every human being, and a little of 50