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My love for Dhruvi Acharya will never stop. I continue to be fascinated by the people she paints. To me, she represents the turn that contemporary art is taking in India. I love that there are so many things in her paintings that amuse and puzzle me . It's interesting how everything is painted in pinks and purples and other pretty colours but the subject's themselves have thought bubbles that look like they belong on the inside of your cheek (& other body parts). Her people wear carefully patterned clothes ( several pieces of which Dhruvi herself is known to wear) that sort of bely their possibly unsettling thoughts and events of their daily lives.
This is the sort of art I'd personally love to see on my walls.
This is the sort of art I'd personally love to see on my walls.
Nice. I'd like to see this sort of thing animated. Like for a music video. Some sort of Indian Radiohead is what we need!
ReplyDeleteAn Indian Radiohead eh? Would they sing in Hindi? I don't know about this. But yes, I like the idea of seeing an animated version of her art.
ReplyDeleteMore Dhruvi Acharya- ye!! I can understand your love for her work. It has depth, layers and can be interpreted in a million ways by the discerning eye- and looks phenomenal- can we ask for anything more? no :)
ReplyDeleteha ha...i love the part about the thought bubbles that look like they belong on the inside of your cheek!...how true. Nice illustration style and use of colour. Some of them remind me of watercolour washes.
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And Indian Radiohead could sing in whatever language they felt like. Perhaps malayalam! Hehe.
ReplyDeleteVindy, check her site you'll love her.
ReplyDeleteYohan, actually I can imagine a morose mallu thom yorke. But I prefer not to , :P
*Sigh*- I am so in love with her paintings! She seem to touch some very sensitive chord inside me!!
ReplyDeleteI aspire to buy one painting of hers sometime:-)
Arch
Hey Arch,
ReplyDeleteme too! I want to buy a few small ones actually. I lurve her work. Sigh
SOON !(but not too soon)
wow, i love these so much. I love the slightly whimsical, fantastic comic-y sense of them... the very organic sense of colour. mmm. I love the subtle tactility of watercolours, so hard to reproduce in a print but so luscious in the original...
ReplyDeleteShe is awesome indeed- it's delicate and yet comic-book-style funny at the same time, and you are so right about this being the kind of art one wants to look at in the house..
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