PAINTER
Abbas Batliwala
"The domain of Art belongs to the humble, yet it is seldom that we come across an artist who whilst he establishes a samvad would let the eyes listen and talk, urge the colours to be the symphonic notes and the chiaroscuro a balletic move; Abbas Batliwala is one contemporary painter who endeavours to create such an interfacial canvas"
His paintings have a unique strength to appeal to the layman and the connoisseur alike, the peeping 'eye' of the dramatis personae emanate a subtle humour through wit for some but for a rasik, the leit motif indicates an inquisition and indictment where the predicament of the common man had ossified him in an eternal limbo. The texture confronts the contemporary in its entire complexity, the minute brush strokes capture the bursting seams of an aging jute bag whilst the prime colour clad puppet engaged in an eternal caricature is foregrounded through a pastel wall.
His essentially Horatian humour and the signature ironic interplay on/of the canvas assimilates the mundane spectrum by foregrounding a reality that more often than not 'lies beyond the ken of human eye'. The humane angst of the omnipresent 'eye' is the custodian of our nation, of the uncountable humanity that through sheer grit and courage survive in the by lanes and village hutments.
His essentially Horatian humour and the signature ironic interplay on/of the canvas assimilates the mundane spectrum by foregrounding a reality that more often than not 'lies beyond the ken of human eye'. The humane angst of the omnipresent 'eye' is the custodian of our nation, of the uncountable humanity that through sheer grit and courage survive in the by lanes and village hutments.
