A riot of colours

As a part of the Telangana State formation day celebrations, Hyderabad Art Society and Department of Tourism and Culture organised an art camp with about 210 artists from all over India participating at the Chitramayee State Gallery of Art. Speaking at the inauguration SP Singh IAS, Chief Secretary, State of Telangana hoped that the vibrancy of all artists coming together would result in another art camp in the near future.

Artist Gouri Vemula said, “I have participated in many All India Art Camps, but this appears to be a camp, which has given opportunity and representation to most of the artists from the city of Hyderabad, State of Telangana and other cities of India. A large number of women have also been given an opportunity to participate in the art camp.”

Sachin Jaltare, a senior artist, expressed happiness at the enthusiasm shown by most of the participating artist. Dinkar Jadhav, Vishal Joshi, Sidharth Shingade, Seema Kohli and Prabhakar Kolte were some of the artists, who came from different cities. Some artists took up the theme of Telangana State formation while others had mythological concepts.

Rajeshwar Nyalapalli painted the ‘Matsya’ avatar symbol of fish while artists like L Saraswati and GK Sravan Kumar reflected the form of Lord Krishna in vibrancy. Bijay Biswaal, a retired employee from Indian Railways, famous for his watercolours, merged the steam engine with the Telangana State symbols of the Kakatiya Arch, Blue Jay bird and the Deer.

Afza Tamkanat painted the typical scene of Hyderabad in a ‘coffee colour’ while one had Raghu Akula paint the colourful tiger against a black and white contrasting coloured bush.

D Jayaprakash, who is known for his concept of a ‘geometric’ type large cat family, painted the same while Anjani Reddy has concentrated on the homemakers of this region. Parmeshwar Raju made his calligraphy works using the blue colour while Koeli Mukherjee and Piu Mahapatra painted designs which bring their core style to the fore.

By Askari Jaffar