Gallery Artchill situated inside Amber Fort which is a famous
Heritage Monument, is hosting a Solo Show of Rockscapes by Eminent artist
VINOD SHARMA.
Layers of Silence
Celebrated landscape painter Vinod Sharma brings a genre apart
from usually prevalent experimental trends in contemporary painting art as his
preoccupation . His Landscapes have been profusely seen in National and International art shows as a
recurring theme since his early time .
Though he grew as a printmaker, but eventually turned an eminent
landscape artist . Vinod has carved out his constant identity as a master of this genre. Unlike other trends he has chosen an untrodden path .What
inspires him are sea beaches, solid silky rocks, shining sand grains and roaring water reecting the
skies. He transforms their reality into mysterious and magical forms hitherto undiscovered and
unventured. His landscapes exhibit inexhaustible wealth of nature – he creates their colours,
contours & curves, with heightened imagination and sharpened sensibility .
Within this chosen genre Vinod Sharma's Rockscapes present an
immense range and variety, and in output most prolic, create an enchanting spectacle, at times
it bafes one's view and analysis. However artist's effort is to creatively record the subtle and
surreal phenomenon that purportedly evokes a sense of innite beauty, spiritual feel and all
pervasive tranquility. The history of landscape painting is of peculiar interest since
it is not so common these days in the contemporary experimental art scene. Landscapes were treated,
generally as background for image or images and not as object of separate aesthetic
contemplation . We have several examples of this kind of practice then and now
in miniature paintings and in the works of great western masters where the best part of the
landscape was painted as necessary backdrop . Landscape painting is essentially romantic and specically
a romantic creation of 'atmosphere' for its
own sake rather than a revelation of experience ( Herbert Read ) It is a love
of comfort and joy also, in some sense a refuge in, and a back step
to an idyllic sensuous, soothing world from the chaotic burdensome & boring urban world.
Hence Herbert Read rightly gives more denite name to the quality that distinguishes landscape
painting , he says, “ I think it would
have to be called POESY ”. The
leitmotif of artist Vinod Sharma , as it appears to be, expresses Romance
with Nature. The
elements of landscape open up to him the possibilities to render them as his pictorial statement. The appeal of his art endeavor is not in
conscious perception but in intuitive apprehension, say not in thought but in feeling .These
landscapes are artistic manifestations realized through the medium of his personality. His approach and
treatment is meticulous, there is no effort to depict the verisimilitude, Vinod
admits 'it is not a copy of the real'. Suffused with excessive light and
hue as his distinct stylistic preoccupation his seascapes and surroundings are
vibrant and sublime. This approach to his art practice , the way he
envisages visual panorama may have the inuence of printmaking technique. He
mysties the territory by adding perplexities to its
beauty and dislocates a viewer but engages one to participate in his deliberate
creation. He thus makes a difference by creating
myriad-colored landscape to embody his own interpretation, they are products of
sheer imagination as John Ruskin quotes in 'Modern Painters' that the
highest imaginative faculty sieges the material - and all that afrms, judges
and describes , it afrms from within.
To enjoy the unique
and pleasant wonderland in wilderness by Vinod Sharma one may echo with the
artist –
Art for art's sake,
Why not?
Art for life' sake,
Why not?
Art for pleasure's
sake , Why not?
What does it matter as
long as it is art?
Dr A. L. Damami
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