Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Gieve Patel
Title: Ektara
Year: 1992
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 67 x 75 in
Gieve Patel inhabits many garbs including those of a physician, poet, playwright and artist. His artworks draw their energy from various human situations and everyday life. A sense of keen observation is evident in his writing and his art alike. A closer look at the elements that define his visuality - human figures, posture and gestures, landscape and cityscapes - all of which manifest a sincere rendition of everyday life, reveals a sense of depth which invites a contemplative gaze.
Although rendering idyllic scenes from everyday life, Patel's works have much more to reveal than what immediately meets the eye. A closer look unveils a thoughtful and laborious artistic process. A contemporary of Patel and an artist himself, Sudhir Patwardhan has written about Patel's works. He notes, "Patel is an artist who spends a lot of time looking. Looking at nature, looking at people, and also looking at his own work in progress. The need to look for long, and again, comes from a commitment to try and see everything in its wholeness. To take note of and accommodate all aspects into the complete picture. The need to look comes also from a genuine delight in the activity of the senses. The artist enjoys just looking. Be it a tree trunk, the sea, or the body of a labourer, close observation opens up for the artist the many nuanced shades of the character of his subject. At the same time, the artist's close attention to his own act of looking exposes the complex and at times contrary impulses that attract him to his subject. Patel's experience of looking in this intricate web of fact, desire, delight, disgust, empathy… Patel values this complex experience, its uncertainties and doubts. Though he never tires of thinking about and analyzing experience, he is not inclined to fix its meaning too easily.
courtesy:saffronart
#art #acrylicpainting #figurative #landscape #popularart#contemporaryartist #gievepatel #artvillecontemporary#artgallery
Gieve Patel
Title: Ektara
Year: 1992
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 67 x 75 in
Gieve Patel inhabits many garbs including those of a physician, poet, playwright and artist. His artworks draw their energy from various human situations and everyday life. A sense of keen observation is evident in his writing and his art alike. A closer look at the elements that define his visuality - human figures, posture and gestures, landscape and cityscapes - all of which manifest a sincere rendition of everyday life, reveals a sense of depth which invites a contemplative gaze.
Although rendering idyllic scenes from everyday life, Patel's works have much more to reveal than what immediately meets the eye. A closer look unveils a thoughtful and laborious artistic process. A contemporary of Patel and an artist himself, Sudhir Patwardhan has written about Patel's works. He notes, "Patel is an artist who spends a lot of time looking. Looking at nature, looking at people, and also looking at his own work in progress. The need to look for long, and again, comes from a commitment to try and see everything in its wholeness. To take note of and accommodate all aspects into the complete picture. The need to look comes also from a genuine delight in the activity of the senses. The artist enjoys just looking. Be it a tree trunk, the sea, or the body of a labourer, close observation opens up for the artist the many nuanced shades of the character of his subject. At the same time, the artist's close attention to his own act of looking exposes the complex and at times contrary impulses that attract him to his subject. Patel's experience of looking in this intricate web of fact, desire, delight, disgust, empathy… Patel values this complex experience, its uncertainties and doubts. Though he never tires of thinking about and analyzing experience, he is not inclined to fix its meaning too easily.
courtesy:saffronart
#art #acrylicpainting #figurative #landscape #popularart#contemporaryartist #gievepatel #artvillecontemporary#artgallery
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