A thousand words can be conveyed through a landscape. Through a vast range of topography, from countryside to urban, a variety of emotions can be expressed. Three artists Maredu Ramu, Puppidi Vittal and Poorna Chandra Prasad showcase their latest landscape paintings.
Poorna Chandra Prasad explores landscapes using Pointillism or dot painting where coloured dots are drawn to give a particular pattern and structure. Pointillism involves use of vivid colours and that is one of the most prominent aspects of Poorna Chandra Prasad’s paintings. He has meticulously connected the dots to portray landscape that has a bit of both urban and rural scenery. The tractor on land with its back facing an urban skyline is one such example. The uses of different hues and tones make the paintings live as if the artist is celebrating nature. The urban residential community is portrayed in an ornamental style where the artist has painted in details on the building structures, electric poles, even the winding by lanes.
Maredu Ramu’s works are more of satirical in nature. The constant tussle between nature reclaiming land and humans destroying nature for construction is predominant in most of his works.
Birds flying away from a concrete jungle which is occupied by half-constructed buildings and billboards crowding the sky are how the artist chose to express his angst.
The artist has used symbols of commercialism using drawings of huge billboards advertising for diamonds, an odd Anna Hazare slogan on the wall and birds flying away to make space for an aeroplane are in his paintings. A statue wrapped in plastic and tied makes a poignant presence in one of his paintings.
A sublime view of the moors of countryside is the primary focus in the paintings of Muppidi Vittal. Using earthy and muted shades he has portrayed the solitude and serenity of nature.
He has played around with light and shadow to depict meandering brooks, hidden pathways, waterfalls and wilderness.
The exhibition is open till July 23, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Shrishti Art Gallery, Jubilee Hills.
