His creations spell out the trauma of terrorism and the violence erupting like the lava of a burning volcano, leaving out any scope for ornamentation and embellishment. Raw splashes of color, the generous use of red suggesting the blood of violence is complemented with the shadows of sprinkles of color leading to darkness, creating a space where the brazen brutality of people who believe in the anti-human and anti-peace movement, effectively reducing the struggle of the innocent to one of futility and failure tinged with death.
The soul of the artist, he feels, should not be bound. Divine force tends to act as dictator, and the mystique of the empty canvas reveals itself slowly. Art and expression of visual images, he reveals, is about passion so, it demands the need to introspect, instead of imitating, to turn inward, to gauge within oneself. This is necessary to bring to the fore the spiritual essence of being, and staying tuned to the mind.
His introspective silence gets gradually transformed onto the serene field of the canvas, astutely awakened through the intensity of the mystique of life in its magical and myriad forms. The subtle and violent shades of earthy colors emerge from the pitch black of darkness. The anger and the anguish arising from the aftermath of meaningless yet ruthless violence and indiscretion find able expression on canvas.
There is a strong element of geometry that structures his works, depicting the hallucinations linked to the three–headed God “Trimurti” (Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwara) representing creation, sustenance and destruction, in that order, mentions art writer Durga Kainthola. His creativity, now honed and shaped by the aftermath of fanaticism, terrorism and ego inspires him to express himself.
MF Husain has been a strong influence on Vijay Shinde. Though he is better known for his brilliant abstracts, he is no less brilliant at portraits.
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