Hussein, Raza, Souza's works on display for city art lovers

In a rare opportunity for the art lovers of the city, works of art masters like little displayed 'Krishna' of M F Husain, 'Tattva Vriksha' by S H Raza, fluorescent hued forms depicting the vibrancy of life by Vidyasagar Upaddhya are now on display in a city art gallery.
"There are 20 art works on display which includes one of the best and lesser seen works of Hussein 'Krishna' where the base is acrylic on canvas cloth in which he has drawn the sketches with marker," a spokesperson of Gallery Nakshatra told PTI.
"There had been fewer occasions when great artists from Hussein to Jogen Chowdhury and Paritosh Sen, from Fransis Newton Souza ( F.N.Souza) have vied for space in a private gallery at the same time," she said.

The other Husseain paintings at the gallery were the Gaja Gamini theme partly with Ganesha and Lady with horse - animal with a female figure - all of which reveals an artiste's fascination for female figure and epitomes of power women, she said.
Paintings of Prabhakar Kolte, Sunil Das and Samir Aich were also on display at the show.
Haldankar decided to model a painting on the same

lines. The medium used was water colours on painted handmade paper as he wanted to prove that he can paint without a single mistake as mistakes made with oil paints cannot be rectified.

Each of the water colours used signifies and symbolises different things - the lavender in the saree stands for grace and the gold showcases the royal touch. The woman in a saree stands for grace, femininity and natural beauty.
The painting is in a domain which is usually darkened with curtains to highlight the subtlety of the glowing candle. The effect of the painting is heightened by the shadow of the woman in the back.
Born in 1882 in Maharashtra's Savantawadi, Sawlaram Lakshman Haldankar showed early promise and enrolled in the Sir JJ school of Arts, Mumbai.
He soon became a student of Dhurandhar and Cecil Burns. In 1908, he started the Haldankar Art Institute in Mumbai. Later, with other friends, he founded the Art School of India in 1918 and became its president.