PAINTER

PN Choyal

"Everything appeared to me more thrilling. My lines were broken in tune with the throbbing of my heart."

Our painter is pictorial but entirely imaginative. Each work connecting up with the other. In this way both nostalgia and sadness come to us without fail. They all hint at the poverty of vision in which we presently subsist, with no marvels of brick, stone or stucco to exhilarate the passing pedestrian. The deep gay colors in which these structures are bathed, are as it were a shot of life to droopy, lackluster us. The painter applies his craft expertly but not woodenly, he is completely faithful to the spirit of what he espies of time, but never does the blackening element blemish the original tones of the ruins. It blends perfectly, to deepen the overall effect. At other places interiors are as though bathed with son and lumiere lights; the sounds, those of a ghostly music. Thus, PN Choyal evokes memory, with careful toning strategies. He coaxes and cajoles us by a craft witchery, as also by the value of the object brought into the focus of the viewer’s attention with excessive spe...
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Artist Biodata

PN Choyal, born 1924, studied Fine Art Diploma, 1948; DTT, School of Arts & Crafts, Jaipur, 1946; Government Diploma, Painting, Sir J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai, 1953; Slade College of Arts, University College, London, 1961-62; MA Hindi Lit., 1955. Art Camps: SARC Festival, 1986; Painters camp at Mandav, MP, 1986; Painters Camp Karnataka Akademy, 1986; Aaj, 1995, Udaipur; ABC Art Gallery, Varanasi; Jawahar Kala Kendra, WZCC, Udaipur & Art camp at Agra, 1996; Rajasthan LKA & LKA, Delhi between 1970 – 1990; All India artists’ camp of fellows of Rajasthan, LKA, between 1996 – 1998; Veteran Artists’ camp – Rajasthan LKA & WZCC, 1998; 50 years Celebration camp – WZCC & NZCC, 1998; Artist camp at Hyderabad, WWF, 2003; AIFACS, Delhi-1983, 1986 & 1990. National Award, LKA, Delhi, 1988; Honours: Elected ‘FELLOW’ by Rajasthan LKA. Veteran Artist, AIFACS, Delhi, 1984; Kala Ratna, 2007, LKA, Delhi. One Man & Group Exhibitions: Kota, Udaipur, Jaipur, Alwar, Delhi, Mumbai, Madras, Chandigarh, Banglore and Calcutta, Japan, Moscow, Brazil, Algeria etc. Participated: All major Art Exhibitions held in India which include AIFACS, Delhi; Akademy of Fine Arts, Amritsar; Oriental Society and Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta; UP Akademy; Bombay Art Society; Drawing exhibitions organised by Govt Museums and Art Gallery, Chandigarh; Rajasthan LKA and Central LKA, Delhi. Invitations Moscow-Veteran Artists of India, 1986; VIth Triennale, 1986; Sao-Paulo-International Biennal, 1987; Havana-International Biennal-1989. Deputed Commissioner for Indian Section, Bharat Bhavan Biennal-1992; Global Forum , Shimane Artists Conference, Japan, 1992; One man show at KYOTO, Shimin Gaiko Association, 1992; Cultural Dept. Japan & Shimin Giako Assoc. Joint Exhibition at Kobe, JAPAN, 1993; Collections: NGMA, LKA, Rajasthan LKA, Modern Art Gallery, Chandigarh Museum, Govt. Museum Jaipur, Maharani Gayatri Devi, Governer’s house Jaipur, Maharao Bhim Singh Kota, H.H. Jawahar, Taj group, Larson and Turbo, Steel Authority of India, Air India, CRY, Jawahar Kala Kendra – Jaipur and Several other private collections in India and abroad. YAMASO BIJITSU Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan. Choyal passed away in 2012.

Artworks

Home Return,

Oil on Canvas

ID: PNCH2365

450000

Incertitude, 1987

Oil on Canvas

ID: PNCH036

180000

Focus, 2001

Oil on Canvas

ID: PNCH026

450000

Perhaps Light Will Come, 1997

Oil on Canvas

ID: PNCH009

450000

View Ganga, 1997

Watercolour on Paper

ID: PNCH3102

75000

Jaisalmer, 1958

Watercolour on Paper

ID: PNCH084

75000

Village Woman at Work,

Watercolour on Paper

ID: PNCH082

75000

Reclining Nude, 1993

Oil on Canvas

ID: PNCH057

180000

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