Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Chintan Upadhyay
Title: Car Garden,
Year: 2012
Medium: Oil, Acrylic, on canvas.
size: 60 х 84 in.
"Car Garden" (2012) is one of the most recent, stunning and important of large-scale oil and acrylic paintings by famed multi-media Contemporary Indian artist Chintan Updhyay and is an important example of his work that deals with the new sense of wealth, empowerment and independence of his generation in India and its relationship to traditional India and nature. Here a surreal yet completely sublime image of a lush green tree and denizens of colorful flowers in full bloom grown from the interior of a convertible red sports car. Painted against a black flat background here the conflation of old and new India, as well as nature and culture, are unabashedly integrated in a manner that is sublime, subversive and ironic all at the same time, defining features of Chintan's oeuvre. The intense the visual overload of this narrative underscores the ever expanding role of consumerist media and advertising in India, that assaults the viewer with images of luxury goods, and material desires.
courtesy:artnet
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