Considered one of India’s leading young painters and printmakers, in this post we try to fathom talented painter-printmaker T.M. Azis’s oeuvre:
- T.M. Azis likes to keep pace with the fast-evolving new digital landscape. The artist is keen to experiment with new media and techniques. According to him, if an art form demands a particular expression/medium, an artist must extend his style accordingly. He draws his influences from today’s popular media that reflect rapidly changing times.
- Ubiquitous objects and common people surface in his amazing painted realm that seldom exudes a grand décor. They still carry a touch of class and grandeur in the midst of simplicity. There are neither decisive tactics, nor fixed artistic devices in his peculiar mode of working. It’s more of a spontaneous outpouring on the artist’s part as he allows himself to be soaked by places and people around him and real-life drama he often encounters.
- His work is mostly figurative in nature. The paintings may revolve around what might be outwardly ordinary, everyday occurrences, deeply contemplated over. The human figures in his painting are often in sync with the other elements. The figures or objects act as symbols that spin around allegories as visualized and conceived by him. Done in bright hues, the paintings incorporate strong individual personas giving rise to a subtle enactment of visual form.
- During the formative years, he mainly used mixed media like watercolors, acrylics, pastels, oil etc on both canvas and paper. Later he turned to acrylic and oil on canvas. Another significant phase of his career was marked in 2004-05. The fascination with negative space within images unraveled itself during this period. In part, this was related to his re-thinking of perspective in 2002-03.
- Summing up his artistic priorities, T.M. Azis has once stated: “Drawing is dominant in my work over time, whether graphic or realistic work, I see it as a drawing.”
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