'Oh Krishna' 146th Art Show at Juneja Art Gallery, Jaipur

 Juneja Art Gallery is presenting its 146^th Art Show Celebrating Lord Krishna , this Janmashtami .

​40 Paintings in different stylization by 14 artists on Aura of Krishna are exhibited in this show, by seniors artists like PN CHOYAL, SHAIL CHOYAL, MANAS RANJAN JENA, ASHOK HAZRA , DEEPIKA HAZRA, ANAND PANACHAL , SURJIT AKRE, Late KL VERMA , KAILASH CHANDRA VERMA, Late RK YADAV SUBRATA DAS , AKASH CHOYAL with emerging artists like Hita hari das Vaishnav. ​

Shail Choyal :  A painter, printmaker and a teacher, Shail Choyal is known for a distinctive miniature style of his own through which he has carved a niche for himself in the Contemporary Art scene in the country. He infuses his works in the narrative idiom and also juxtaposes the allegorical with the real. Exploiting the inherent aesthetic motifs and the multi tier division of space of Rajasthani traditional painting, he has evolved a nostalgic art with an utmost modern sensibility. Vibrant colors and surreal settings add mystery to his paintings.

 ‘City of Udaipur, with its glorious ancient Rajput architecture, lakes, hills, gardens and robust people with brilliant colors have always been my prime concern. Rigid angular form in horizontal and vertical lines punctuated with curvilinear motifs of doors, windows, still bluer lakes, domes and turrets all fill me with strong sense of nostalgia. For years, I exploited the visual references of my lovely city to project my own personal world that has been mystical and real as well. In these works, I am trying to project a dramatic tension through juxtaposition of the allegorical with the real and to attain ethereal fantasy. I shall go on fathoming the aesthetic treasures yet unearthed’                             

Manash Ranjan Jena is a renowned visual artist based in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha. Manash, born in 1968 in a small village of Mayurbhanj district of rural Odisha, was educated at Bhubaneswar based B.K. College of art. 

Deepika  Hazra

On the fringes of the cities of Rajasthan are clusters of villages where life is in complete contrast to the stressful, materialistic world of today. It is a world cradled in the harmony with nature, a world rich in traditions, folklores and joy. It is a world full of the magical sound of the birds, the amazing sight of the herds of cows, the beautiful and graceful peacocks, the brilliant colors of the flowering trees in full bloom, and the rustic beauty of the women folk at their daily chores, clad in the most colorful clothes.

This series of paintings by my mother, who was born and brought up in Rajasthan, is a tribute to the beauty, simplicity , the peace and the innocent pleasures of these women living in the remote villages far from the maddening crowd.

Madhabihazra