Inspirations from 'mundane' human
life
Shailesh
Patel, an artist from olpad taluka Surat, holding a degree in Creative
Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Baroda plans to conquer the
national art scene with the display of his ever-evolving new patterns
and artistic traditions of work . He is honoured by the Lalit Kala Academy,
Gujarat, for his outstanding drawing. The Government of India awarded
him Junior Fellowship for 1999-2000. He has also been in news recently
for bagging the prestigious Bendre -Hussain Scholarship for 1999-2000.
The murals of Shailesh mostly
reflect the various angles of human life. One just cannot help feeling
the minute observation of the artist, his creativity and his aesthetic
efforts to achieve rigorous atmosphere.
He claims that the medium
of mural is directly related to human being’s mundane life and human activities,
culture, relationships and sentiments. "I desired to put my ideas and
experiences in the form of mural-painting, which requires essential visual
structure and different frame of mind and a new angle of vision which
can be fully demonstrated by distorting life and various elements," he
explains.
Shailesh is of the opinion
that, as mural is done on the wall, it takes in its sway the surrounding
environment and thus become a part in itself; and as an outcome creates
a complete new world.
Shailesh always keeps certain
artistic notions in his mind like rhythm attained through the sensory
relationship of colours, and line, proportion, space, light and
shade draftsmanship and composure,
repetitive yet varied use of forms and line, and the movement created
by all these elements.
He feels that "The Gothic-Era’s
stain glasses done in cathedrals based on the life of Christ are the best
examples of eternal beauty and aesthetic. It got embedded in my mind so
much that I decided to transform the effect of stain glass on my paintings.
I felt that these type of subjects if represented or delineated in line
drawing then it will be more attractive."
In his murals an Italian
frescos, his newly developed technique and experience converged which
demonstrate artist’s continuing dedication of diversity and creativity
to heightened expression of life and passion, tone and spirit of art as
a whole rather than a specific moment or event.
He believes that the mural
artist should be respected highly because by their creations they shake
the whole society's heart. They paint the truths of life, which is necessary
to acquire new dimensions in artistic creativity.
Republished from Asian Age
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