“Small Painting, Exposition of Painting 2015”, a seven-day painting exhibition was organised by Colours Land Art Academy, Kolkata and Pegasus Art Gallery, Hyderabad at Lalit Kala Akademi in New Delhi last week.
Inaugurated on the Labour Day, the opening ceremony was followed by a poetry session and art descriptions by the artists.
The exhibition showcased more than a hundred paintings, including abstract paintings and those depicting human figure and landscapes and portraits. The participants included Malaya Das, Washim R Kapoor, Atish Thakur, Chandana Khan, Aditi Sen among many others.
The objective of the event was to provide a platform to talented artists from Kolkata to exhibit their works. “It is a very special show, comprising a group of artists and their small paintings. It can be called a miniature of small paintings and the artists have tried to capture their moods, thoughts, feelings into a limited space which is not easy all the time. It is a collection of landscapes, human figure, faces, to abstract by 101 artists and organised to encourage so many artists,” says Chandana Khan, artist.
According to Khan, abstract art stands out as it enables the viewer to interpret much more than what the artists does in the work. It does not depict a person, place or thing in the natural world and the subjects of work are based on what one perceives. “When an artist exhausts all forms, figures, shapes then the last part is abstract. One goes beyond figures to almost a nirvana kind of situation,” says Khan.
The exhibition provided the participating artists to see the works of others and also interact with them.
