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Yusuf Arakkal [1945] is dynamically versatile in his exploitation and exploration of medium, technique, materials and subject matter. His works convey concepts grounded in social realities providing visibility to the downtrodden and the marginalized. Arakkal also works in diverse themes and is grounded in his reality, working on ideas that affect his sensibility or works with studio subject as still life. His technique foregrounds tenebrism or the heavy contrstas of light and dark that emphasize the dramatic, mysterious and enigmatic qualities in his art. By articulating his empirical |
experiences through the element of line, Arakkal sets about projecting his emotions, feelings, sympathies and sentiments empathically related with people whom he has come across. The pregnant pauses between the lines of Arakkal are where his art resides. Thus through strokes that reinforces the artists versatility from short, choppy, agitated to confident, subtle, suave and intense, Arakkal vociferously makes his line perform articulating in the process a visual language that is as varied as it is interesting. Arakkal’s works are abstracted as colour imageries carrying values for a specific social or cultural purpose. |
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