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“NATRAAJ LIGHTS UP THE RIGHT POSE, POISE FOR ALL HIS SUBJECTS!”
01-Jul-2019
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KHL News Bureau
Anjali is a final year student of graduation in the BMM (Bachelor of Mass Media) stream. At another time she transcended into picture perfect photograph by artist Vajranabh Natraaj Maharshi whose illuminating photo display was on show at the Jehangir Art Gallery between January 3 and 8, 2018.
Says a visibly satisfied Natraaj of the opening of his pictorial exhibition by Oscar winner Tim McGovern on January 2, “We named the exhibition – Fourth Eye – to signify creation. Shiva is known to possess the third eye (of destruction) and hence the fourth eye may only belong to a creator, a mantle I tried to don, and give birth to pictorials that emit a lifetime of emotions.”
Natraaj has themed a series of pictorials of a young girl as ‘happiness’ that captures happy moods of girlish innocence that contrast with the dark and brooding yet, lit up feature of another boy child (Natraaj’s own son Shivdeb) whose bold bright eyes project fear and apprehension but, are as illuminating as the artist’s ability to use light as the contrasting medium for his pictures of pure art-form.
The exhibition of 89 pictures of art that Natraaj displayed also showcased a classic entry point picture of Anjali who meta-morphs into Mona Lisa which is no mean feat. The artist’s daring to lead with this picture is truly admirable, though Anjali’s visage and Natraaj’s play with lights makes the transformation actually possible. This Indian Mona Lisa is also captured with a single tear streaming down her cheek, something she worked up naturally.
A lot of dark shades of desperation come to the fore in the displays of women that featured in the exhibition. Says Natraaj, “A family friend Moushmi posed for the picture emoting desperation that was tilted ‘Broken Woman”. She was motivated by the need to project the image of a woman who is enslaved and seeking desperately, a release from such a state (of mind).
The show-stopper of sorts, purely because of the spontaneity of the project, was an American student visitor to the gallery captured immediately by Natraaj on his lens. She will be featured in his next exhibition of photographs either, to be held in the USA or the UK, in the near future.
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“KHL News Bureau
Anjali is a final year student of graduation in the BMM (Bachelor of Mass Media) stream. At another time she transcended into picture perfect photograph by artist Vajranabh Natraaj Maharshi whose illuminating photo display was on show at the Jehangir Art Gallery between January 3 and 8, 2018.
Says a visibly satisfied Natraaj of the opening of his pictorial exhibition by Oscar winner Tim McGovern on January 2, “We named the exhibition – Fourth Eye – to signify creation. Shiva is known to possess the third eye (of destruction) and hence the fourth eye may only belong to a creator, a mantle I tried to don, and give birth to pictorials that emit a lifetime of emotions.”
Natraaj has themed a series of pictorials of a young girl as ‘happiness’ that captures happy moods of girlish innocence that contrast with the dark and brooding yet, lit up feature of another boy child (Natraaj’s own son Shivdeb) whose bold bright eyes project fear and apprehension but, are as illuminating as the artist’s ability to use light as the contrasting medium for his pictures of pure art-form.
The exhibition of 89 pictures of art that Natraaj displayed also showcased a classic entry point picture of Anjali who meta-morphs into Mona Lisa which is no mean feat. The artist’s daring to lead with this picture is truly admirable, though Anjali’s visage and Natraaj’s play with lights makes the transformation actually possible. This Indian Mona Lisa is also captured with a single tear streaming down her cheek, something she worked up naturally.
A lot of dark shades of desperation come to the fore in the displays of women that featured in the exhibition. Says Natraaj, “A family friend Moushmi posed for the picture emoting desperation that was tilted ‘Broken Woman”. She was motivated by the need to project the image of a woman who is enslaved and seeking desperately, a release from such a state (of mind).
The show-stopper of sorts, purely because of the spontaneity of the project, was an American student visitor to the gallery captured immediately by Natraaj on his lens. She will be featured in his next exhibition of photographs either, to be held in the USA or the UK, in the near future.
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