Today on 24th September, I have
attended a workshop related various art forms. It was organized by Balvant
Parekh centre, Vadodara, and Department of Gujarati MK Bhavnagar University.
Here is the brochure:
As it is mentioned in the brochure, the
painter Amit Ambalal has came to talk about paintings;
Ratilal Kansodariya has talked about an
art of sculptures and Rajendra Kumar sinh
has discussed about the caves and paintings of Ajanta caves.
The session has started at 11 a.m. but we
reached there at 10 a.m. to help the students of Gujarati Department and I have
observed that the students were working under the guidance of the professors of Gujarati Department. It takes really hard work to organize such event.
After welcoming the
guests by books, the first session was film screening – “Art Chronicles” which was a documentary film on Amit Ambalal’s life. It
was directed by Jigar Kapadiya and Ronak Suparivala. In the film Amit Ambalal
was telling his journey from childhood to a most popular painter. In the
starting of the film Amitsir has described ‘art’ by saying that,
“Art is a combination of person’s history of life with
inner sense”
This definition of art reminds me the essay
by T. S. Eliot “Tradition and Individual Talent” that artist (poet) is a medium
and the experience and feelings creates art. The second important thing he
explained was that the modern art is a sudden expression and classical art has
spiritual touch as it is recollected emotions in tranquillity. The fellow artists
of Amitsir noticed that he has a narration of an event in his paintings, it has its own environment.
of Amitsir noticed that he has a narration of an event in his paintings, it has its own environment.
Here I have shared
some of his paintings with his elaboration:
Another important symbolism in his paintings was monkey and crow, which is interpreted by Prof. Dilip Barad also in his Facebook post, you can refer it by clicking here.Monkey is very much related with science (evolution of human species) and Religion (God Hanuman)
He also painted
corporate world by painted abstract images of managers and employees, and their
artificiality. In some of his
paintings there were children, he mentioned in his documentary that he was not
able to enjoy his childhood as he should and the reason is very interesting for
an artist because to express such suppressed emotions in art is the best way.
There were some art
pieces created by him like gestures of humans when they are thinking, it
reminds me the play by Samuel Becket and how Vladimir asks Lucky to think. Only
an artist could observe such very ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
there were so many interesting paintings like, “Tiger and Tulips”, “You can
have all the burden. I will play flute”, “God of small pains” and many more,
those paintings cannot be collected in this blog of less than 1000 words.
The second session
was about various sculptures and the speaker was very famous artist Ratilal Kansodariya. You can view some photographs
of his sculpture here(FB wall of Dr. Dilip Barad). Ratilal Kansodariya
has describes the techniques of making sculptures and the process needs really
hard work and dedication. We can feel the touch of his whole life and childhood
experiences in his art.
The last speaker was Rajendrakumar Sinh. He is doing research on Ajanta caves from last 22 years and he shared such important facts about caves, and coonected the dots of archaeology – Art – Religion (Buddhism) – history with contemporary world.
After each session there were 15-30 minutes have given for the discussion and question answers and students have expressed their curiosity by asking so many interesting questions.
I have enjoyed as well as learned so many new things from the first day of workshop and waiting for tomorrow... for the next session.
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