PAINTER, SCULPTOR ARTIST
Rakesh Kumar Gupta
"Art as language of communication is instinct with the need to express, to evoke or provoke feelings."
Artist Rakesh Kumar Gupta has now surpassed himself. Certainly, his work is crisp and bracing. Look at those robust lines in blue, and that is how he goes from work to almost sculpturesque work. Now, as to the artistic reason for these varied heads: All artistic language, qua expression, is concerned with inducing emotions, attitudes, volitions, connotations, desires, feelings, states of mind and all that- not to describe them so much as to give vent to self. So that art as language of communication is instinct with the need to express, to evoke or provoke feelings. Each head here has a distinct, expressive pictorial meaning. Each is a stimulus to the viewer. By oblique references, tones, visual color, imagery and other artistic devices the artist conjures in our minds vivid sensations. Such is the purpose of the work. These particular heads may be defined as pregnant with meanings in which the response (from the viewer’s point of view), or else the stimulus (from the artist’s poin...
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