EMOTION IS ALSO LINKED TO BEHAVIORAL TENDENCY – BY ASTHA MITTAL

Emotions are complex. According to some theories, they are a state of feeling that results in physical and psychological changes that influence our behavior. The physiology of emotion is closely linked to arousal of the nervous system with various states and strengths of arousal relating, apparently, to particular emotions. Emotion is also linked to behavioral tendency. This project has different facets of human emotions.Emotions involve different components, such as subjective experience, cognitive processes, expressive behavior, psycho physiological changes, and instrumental behavior.

Artist : Astha Mittal

The word “emotion” dates back to 1579, when it was adapted from the French word émouvoir, which means “to stir up”. The term emotion was introduced into academic discussion to replace passion. Emotions are thought to be related to certain activities in brain areas that direct our attention, motivate our behavior, and determine the significance of what is going on around us.

The emotions portrayed in this project are: Redemption Lust Passion Love Empathy Gratitude Anticipation Memories Hope Contentment Rapture Yearning

Am in love with these pieces of my heart,my soul daughters, don’t know if I can come back.
Presenting to you the chiitergul village girls irtija,astha,aina & aqsa.

About the artist : Astha is an engineer by degree( we all are!),a cook by passion and an artist for the sheer love of art.Having spent most of her life as a wanderer in search of nothing in particular but observing each inch of life,each enigma of existence and working on emotions has been a beautiful experience she says. Expressing her thoughts into an expression by the medium of my canvas and paints has been the most exhilarating experience of her life for the past four years.Painting is a strong medium and she has tried learning it by self over the years.In this particular body of work,she wishes to showcase an essence of emotions which is never spoken of or lost in the oblivion because of very busy life in today’s times

Recent work by Astha Mittal

Having spent most of my life as a wanderer in search of nothing in particular but observing why women in each section of our society are not respected for their own individuality. Expressing my thoughts into an expression by the medium of my canvas and paints has been the most exhilarating experience of my life for the past four years.Painting is a strong medium and i have tried learning it by self over the years.In this particular body of work,I have wished to showcase an essence of “her” which is never spoken of or lost in the oblivion because of the so important social customs and practices.

The right to express her rational opinion is always taken away from her irrespective of how educated she is.My work is simple,its my heart which goes to the women who suffers each day and still stays quiet.

by Art blogazine / all image copyright by artist Ashta Mittal : Delhi

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M.S.University,Faculty Of Fine Arts,Vadodra...12.12.2015

M.S.University,Faculty Of Fine Arts,Vadodra...12.12.2015

Peace in Abstraction: Paintings by Nital Bhuva

Nital Bhuva is one of the upcoming self-taught, hobby artist. Her passionfor painting developed in the teenage. Right from the day she held the brush for painting, abstract forms have been her kind of expression. Now she has established herself as a painter and continues her dedicated to abstraction. On asking her whether she tried hands in other styles, she abruptly said ‘No’. Her confidence in abstract is really amazing. For her abstraction is a pause; like a second chance at life or whatever is perceived, finding no mistakes. It’s a perfection in illusion. Further she says, “When a surface looks beautiful to me, it has a self-disciplinary effect, consoled for en number of ages .It gives me creative high and satisfaction.” What I admire about her is her strong belief in this style instead of trying various styles and then ending up as an abstract artist. She enjoys this style as it brings displacement   in memory and joy, for her it is an allusion as is desired to produce same amount of possibility from afar as well close up.

Artist : Nital Bhuva

She is professional trained in technical knowledge, being a student of Engineering initially it was difficult to migrate from technical to creative field. But her sensitive mind made it easy to be thoughtful towards exposed and subtle realities of life and now she has been painting since more than eight years. The forms are subjectively and non-subjectively connected on subtle level. 

Her paintings transcend from physical to spiritual. The texture, lines, colours together convey the feelings that flow in mind, these are the thoughts that you cannot put in words, liberated from physical bonds.

Along with being a painter she is also a good poetess. The poetry transcends into her painting. She has written English as well as a few Gujarati poems, the matter, sharpness and lucidity is very dear to her heart. It is a simplification of complexity. A few lines that projects upheaval of thoughts:

Recent works by Nital Bhuva

Deep in to the forests,
where life grows and rests; 

where wind blew clean and cool,
soothing wounds of even the dead; 

suddenly with a start,
I wake to the real; 

which never fails to lurk,
from behind the golden face; 

darkness of the hell,
has descended on this place; 

soot suffocates my heart,
already buried under the plastic carts; 

I gather this charred remains,
the mother earth in my hands; 

which once used to be a salve,
slips from my fingers now; 

and what was once a balm,
poisons my blood now; 

the ambrosia which I dreamed of,
evaporated in the air; 

and the right to be alive,
dead before the death.
- Nital Bhuva

Recent works by Nital Bhuva

Speaking about her creative process, she humbly says, “Till date, is like colder meals, a lot of freedom with surface experimentation, and different colours. I hope for late surge of expectations and more available discipline. Most of the time my creations develop from some kind of longing to see more of beauty.”

She prefers to work on Sunmica board and while working, is completely involved in bringing out the desired effect on its surface. Most of her creations are in blue and red. Both the medium and colours add to her perspective and there is a lot of emotional quotient involved. Her perspective can be interpreted subjectively according to individual experiences. Like a true abstract creations, her paintings give a lot of scope for individual interpretations. Her digitalis are equally mesmerizing. 

Coming up soon, the works of this passionate abstract- painter, self-taught artist. View and admire her first Solo show at  Art Gate Gallery, Mumbai.

 

By Pankaja JK.

ArtBlogazine.com

TARQ is delighted to present Pratap Morey’s first solo exhibition

TARQ is delighted to present Pratap Morey’s first solo exhibition — ‘measure | decipher.’ Comprising several new works, ‘measure | decipher’ seeks to examine the artist’s preoccupation with changing geographies of urban spaces. Pratap has lived and worked in Mumbai for the most part of his life, and has been constantly displaced by the city’s shifting façades. He seeks inspiration from his immediate surroundings, exploring the spatial existence of its residents and the dualism of a colossal urban sprawl where vacant spaces are rapidly transformed into formidable structures.
 

Artist: Pratap Morey

The artist uses a combination of digital photographic images, archival prints, architectural drawings and engravings in his intricate paper works. Each work delves into the overarching themes of construction, redevelopment and displacement — which are immediate concerns in a contemporary urban environment. The radical proliferation of urban spaces is an urgency that Pratap’s practice abstracts and presents to the viewer in his version of relief sculpture. The structural elevations in his works are restrained deliberations to amplify and reveal movement and metamorphosis as well as create an illusion of voids. He uses the structural nature of his works as a tool to create space, utilizing formal structures like corners and the three-point perspective to draw the viewer into each of his works.

According to architect Kaiwan Mehta, “The absurdity of the gap between the real and the projected is played out as drawings sit on photographs, measuring and deciphering a reality that is everyday and there, yet not acknowledged, recognisable but never accounted, never drawn out as a documentation of the life and cities we occupy - making reality - unreal. As the real and unreal, material and surreal, shape our spaces of existence and living, the non-architectural architecture that shapes the city emerges in the concreteness of architectural drawings.

Recent work by Pratap Morey

The sense of distance we adopt towards our everyday living, finding refuge in landscapes of dream- trajectories, produces cities that exist (only) in the realms of near-fictional domains and topographies, while the everyday material world, with its material-reality gets relegated to a topography of denial, the urgent wish to de-recognise it out of some sense of shame or refutation. This space we exist (and live) in between insistent occupation of a projected fantasy and the hurried denial of the everyday reality produces citizens that have lost a sense of measure - the measure of what it means to participate in human worlds, life and death, reflections and arguments, files and books, sleepwalking and reading 

Recent work by Pratap Morey

we start living in delirious worlds! Morey's landscapes are an attempt to decipher these delirious worlds and cities we are all living in.”

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Pratap Morey is a Mumbai-based artist with a post-graduate diploma in Indian Aesthetics from Mumbai University and a graduate degree in Fine Art from Vasai Vikasini College of Visual Arts.

Pratap has participated in several curated group shows, including The Unbearable Closeness of Being at Gallery Engendered, New Delhi (2015); the Art on Paper biennale at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina, USA (2014); Interstices at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2012); Stop Making Sense at False Ceiling Gallery, Mumbai (2012); and @rt Virtually Real at Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi (2012) among others. His art fair participation includes United Art Fair, curated by MeeraMenezes, New Delhi (2013), and India Art Fair, New Delhi (2013), represented by Art Alive Gallery.

He has participated in residencies at institutions such as the Harmony Art Foundation, India (2015); the Artists-In-Residence programme hosted by the President of India at the RashtrapatiBhavan, New Delhi (2014); CRACK International Residency, Bangladesh (2013); Space 118, Mumbai (2012); and Uttarayan Art Foundation, Vadodara (2012), and is also the recipient of the Bendre-Husain- Scholarship, India (2013) and the La Critique award at Salon des RéalitésNouvelles, France (2012).

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Image courtesy: Abner Fernandes & TARQ

 

Clinging to manifest emotional ties - Pick one artist Solo show By Ashok Hinge

Ashok Hinge‘s involvement with black ink and one stroke paintings have worked wonders. With the time, his art has intensified to the extent that it seems he has developed his own language of ‘stroked alphabets’ especially drawn in black ink. I have been following his paintings and appreciate his spontaneous expressions. His passion for black has also made such an intense impression that it is hard to imagine the images in colour other than black ink.

(Artist Ashok Hinge file photo cop right Art Blogazine.com)

Coming up online solo exhibition at Pick-one artist online gallery is an extension of his established style of painting. All the paintings are done in Chinese black ink. In this series he presents his concepts in novel and unique way of twisting and turning creepers and climbers in human forms. These people seem to be in tête-à-tête with each other.

Though I know that he has passion for mundane activities and people, I still decided to peep in his thoughts for shaping creepers and climbers in such a unique way. He enthusiastically spoke about his work.

Like every other work it is a continuous entity, I had first thought of how to paint it till the end effect. The creepers from nature inspired me and shaped my images without break. Therefore you do not find layers of patches, whatever is created is at one go, keeping in mind that theme should also project the base i.e. the entirety of creepers. 

This work is the abstraction of creeper, weak steamed plants those can grow nicely with the support. We too are social animals and rely on each other for living and survival just like these plants. We, human beings also start growing with the support of Gurus and guides who help us grow and feel alive. Without support or guidance you keep struggling on the ground and sometimes you feel dead too. Life is beautiful when you are with good people and Gurus.  Otherwise you are no less than live-dead bodies.

(Recent work on www.pickoneartist.com)

But life is not just black and white, it is colourful. Painters express themselves using varied hues. I was curious to know his personal view about colours that play major role in creating the aura and emotional set up of the concept, and what was his take on using single black ink? Didn’t it put restrictions on emoting the feelings? To this, he was quickly reacted saying, No, limiting my work in black ink do not hinder the expressions. As I always say, displaying maximum using minimal has more lucidity. I love to make use of minimal widens the scope for viewers, as they have wider scope to analyse and admire paintings according to their sensibility. I am not against use of colours but at the moment if I use colours I will feel the escapist who is not able to state exactly what I feel.

(Ashok Hinge inspired by Illustrator Andy Warhol was one of the most prolific and popular artists of his time, using both avant-garde and highly commercial sensibilities.)  Copyright Photo courtesy by http://www.biography.com/

When asked about artists migrating in painting profession from commercial field, he said, I was also Commercial designer and did Calligraphy. One thing that we should not forget is that being in commercial field also involved creative thinking, but the only difference was that of approach- It was more target oriented. So I can say that creativity is not new and has continued till date, in fact became more matured in terms of expressing Self. The difference is, now I do not have target audience and viewers are free to interpret and admire my work at their will. USP doesn’t matter because it is entirely subjective concept whether accepted or not. Being in commercial creativity had not only extracted my creative output for targets, but during that phase I learnt abstractions of words with meanings associated to them and their charismatic allure drew me to put the words in images. Back then and till date I like simplicity in my images. To my bliss, people too liked this simplicity and complimented me by asking to see more of such creations. Thereon my journey as a painter started and now I am completely involved in it. My art is well supported by art-lovers and great contemporary artists. So indirectly, I can say I am a Shishyaof all my Gurus-critics (good/bad), who have guided and oriented me to be thoughtful throughout my career.

I enjoy this freedom of expression and plan to explore deeper in the mysteries of creativity. 

Pick one Artist invite 
Log on solo show: 1st Nov to 30th Nov 2015

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By Pankaja JK.

ArtBlogazine.com