The Art by Dr Ved Prakash Bhardwaj - HTML preview

The Art

precisely because it remains mysterious. Kolte

There is often an impression of geometric

attempts to reveal something of this mystery

forms in these paintings, and at times a sense of through painting, but never reveals it completely.

urban structures seems to occupy a large part

His abstraction deepens rather than resolves the of the picture. It is here that Kolte’s painting mystery.

becomes a visual parable of the invisible. The

If we look closely at his paintings, familiar seems almost within reach, yet remains unfamiliar and unidentified forms seem to appear beyond complete recognition.

through thick lines and combinations of colour.

Kolte is recognized as an abstract

His method ensures that the painting never opens artist who moves from the simple toward the

itself completely. Just as words in a poem acquire complex. He believes that abstraction cannot

new meanings through their associations with

easily be explained and that its beauty should be one another, colours in Kolte’s paintings generate experienced rather than reduced to interpretation.

an expanding field of images and sensations.

At an exhibition in Delhi, when a visitor asked him He may begin by applying one colour to

to explain his paintings, he reportedly responded the canvas and then create non-representational

politely that the paintings should simply be seen forms with other colours. But the process does

and enjoyed. This attitude captures something

not end there. He often applies a deep layer of

essential about his artistic philosophy. For Kolte, colour over the earlier surfaces, while deliberately the encounter with a painting is not an intellectual leaving parts of the underlying canvas exposed.

puzzle that necessarily requires a solution. It is He also allows colour to flow across the surface.

an experience that must be lived through seeing.

As one colour emerges through another, different The joy of creation is like a festival in Kolte’s structures appear in the final composition. The art. When his paintings are viewed together, they effect can resemble someone peeping from behind

can seem like a singer performing one raga after a curtain, a sheet of mist, or a veil of darkness: another. This musical quality is especially evident something becomes visible while something else in his use of colour. The acoustic beauty of music remains indistinct and shimmering.

seems to emerge visually through the

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