A joint show of works, entitled ‘Eternal Landscapes‘ by Ram Kumar and Paresh Maity, brings together two diverse landscape painters. Ram Kumar from the pre-independence generation, one of the pioneers of the modern art movement in India, and Paresh Maity from the post-independence generation, a young turk of the contemporary art movement in India.
The exhibition presents the viewer with the opportunity to be led into a new invigorating experience of landscapes. The timeless elemental power of nature is expressed by these works the dialogue created between these works of varying scale eliminates the nature of our relationship with the environment and our human scale within it. Both painters express a faith in the spiritual benefits to be gained from the contemplation of nature’s bounty.
A write up by renowned art expert and collector Vickram Sethi
elaborates: "To describe Landscape as land as it is seen would be over simplifying the concept of landscape paintings; however, the fact is that it is a term that covers the depiction of mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, forests, sky and nature in all its elements arranged into a coherent composition. Landscape paintings have been in existence ever since the dawn of civilization.
Every natural setting has its own precise mix of man animal terrain and abode. Cave painters focused their art on the animals that constituted their daily hunts. Chinese artists were probably the first painters who added another important aspect in their work and this is a search for personal enlightenment. My longing for the notes of a flute is answered in the murmurings of the Gorge wrote the Chinese poet painter Shenzou in 1500 AD.
The word Landscape which has become so critical to theories concerning place, space and cultural representations of nature. For many cultural theorists the very idea of landscape implies a process of alienation from nature and is an integral element in the development of the modern aesthetic. The depiction of landscape in a painting is essentially a representation of space that radically extends the possibilities of an aesthetic experience," he points out.
A joint show of works, entitled ‘Eternal Landscapes‘ by Ram Kumar and Paresh Maity, brings together two diverse landscape painters. Ram Kumar from the pre-independence generation, one of the pioneers of the modern art movement in India, and Paresh Maity from the post-independence generation, a young turk of the contemporary art movement in India.
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