What is it about Indian contemporary art that allows such an international audience to engage with it?
Art has no geographical boundaries; a brilliant piece of work is recognized and appreciated by all. You have a beautiful painting by S.H. Raza in your sale. Who and what were his stylistic influences? During a brief tenure as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1962, Raza became greatly enamored of Abstract Expressionists like Hans Hoffman, Mark Rothko and Sam Francis. The mood of a painting, or as Raza states, “a certain climate of experience,” is of paramount importance. His paintings from the 1960s, of which Le Maquis (1965) is a superb example, reflect his newfound freedom with color, as well as his highly emotive brush strokes. This resulted in his most important concern: the capturing of the “inner rhythm” of his subjects, primarily through the use of color. Le Maquis, which means “scrub” or “bush” in French, without a doubt generates that desirable inner rhythm. What upcoming museum exhibitions are on your “must-see” list this season? Francis Bacon
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