Ganesh Pyne - Woman Sowing | Online Exhibition | Saffronart Partner Galleries

FROM THE SHADOWS - GANESH PYNE
August 2 - September 14
Online Exhibition on akarprakar.com & @saffronartindia website - www.saffronart...
Script and Narration by Ella Datta:
This #tempera, titled as Woman Sowing, was painted in 1971. It shows a woman radiating an aura of the scared, carrying down the stairs a sapling for planting and a water pot. By the time #Pyne painted this work of a powerful female form he had mastered his iconography and his medium. The female form placed against a background of mysterious shadows and decaying structures introduces a note of hope and rejuvenation in the form of the tender green shoot. Pyne achieves a luminosity in the ochre sari draping the woman and the inky blue green background of the sky. It's very expressive. The rich depths of colour are achieved by stippling strokes, patiently applied layer upon layer.
About Ganesh Pyne:
Ganesh Pyne (1937-2013), one of the foremost artists of post-Independence India, is no stranger to the art lovers of the country. His haunting images of intimations of mortality, the crepuscular light in his canvases, and his brilliant use of his own version of tempera is remembered by connoisseurs and critics alike. He started as a watercolourist in the Bengal school mode, and gradually shifted to gouache and finally to tempera, for his subsequent abstract and #surrealist work period in ochre, black and blue shades.
About Ella Datta:
Ella Datta has been tracking the Indian art scene
for more than thirty years. She is a writer and
journalist who has been published by nearly all
the national and business dailies. She is the author
of Ganesh Pyne: His Life and Times (CIMA Gallery,
Calcutta), The Art of A. Ramachandran (Roli Books,
New Delhi), A Walk in the Woods: The Art of Paramjit
Singh (Yoda Press, New Delhi), Face to Face: Art Practice
of A. Ramachandran (Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai), and
Jamini Roy: Journey to the Roots (National Gallery of
Modern Art, New Delhi). She has also written a book
on art for children, Lines and Colours: Discovering Indian
Art (National Book Trust, New Delhi). Datta was
the Tagore National Fellow for Cultural Research,
attached to the National Gallery of Modern Art
(2011-2013). For the NGMA, she curated the
exhibition Circle of Art: The Three Tagores (2011) and
Jamini Roy: Journey to the Roots (2013). She also curated
an exhibition of Arpita Singh’s work for Lalit Kala
Akademi, New Delhi (2014).