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Arpita Singh: "Arpita Singh has pushed the visual lexicon of the middle-aged woman further than almost any other woman artist. The anomaly between the aging body and the residue of desire, between the ordinary and the divine and the threat of the violent fluxes of the impinging external world gives her work its piquancy and edge. At the same time she critiques the miasma of urban Indian life with suggestive symbols of violence that impinge on the sphere of the private, creating an edgy uncertainty." - Gayatri Sinha Born in 1937 in what is now Bangladesh, expressive brush strokes.
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. This technique also facilitated the advance his concepts namely faith, peace, terrorism, communal strife, political malpractices and corruption. Engaging with icons of historical significance as Gandhi or Christ or a metaphysical concept of the dancing Nataraja in its dual role as a creator and destroyer, and other ubiquitous ones as birds or lamp, visually marking his works as quasi realistic or mimetic but his abstraction is metaphorical communicating his engagement with these forms to have layered meaning. Said Alphonso, “my works are neither real nor abstract”, paradoxical indeed, but underpinning it is the essence of his concepts. |
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