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A deeper look into the art and philosophy of S.H Raza : India's most famous contemporary abstract artist. Includes activities for children and families.
A deeper look into the art and philosophy of S.H Raza : India's most famous contemporary abstract artist. Includes activities for children and families.
Circle as a basic shape has always enchanted the human mind. Many mathematicians and philosophers considered it the most perfect of all geometric shapes, while theologians felt it supernatural or divine. For the artist the mysterious circle was always a thing of beauty and a joy forever. For them the mystery element combined with the […]
Beginning in the late 1970s, S.H. Raza turned to ancient Indian symbolism and its logical language of colour and shape, as a vehicle for his interpretations of the universe and its processes. Centering the unique idiom he developed on the bindu, the simple dot that he was introduced to by a school teacher as a concentration aid, Raza soon built an entire non-representative vocabulary with which he could reach out to the world. As Yashodhara Dalmia explains, “…the Bindu repr indivisible unity of the static female principle and the male kinetic principle, which together in their unity create the entire universe of matter and spirit. Therefore, it is the smallest unity beyond which energy cannot be condensed. Incal terms, it is the creative matrix of the universe, the visva-bija – the world-seed – the central energy from which all things originate and return. The root forms from which yantras or sacred diagrams are constructed are the circle, thend the square. The circle is an expanded Bindu within which lies the notion that time has no beginning or end. The triangle is a primary enclosure since space cannot be bounded by fewer than three lines. Hence, it is feminine power while th, with its apex upwards, denotes the male principle” (The Making of Modern Indian Art: The Progressives, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2001, p.162). The present lot, painted in 2000, underscores Raza’s non-representative vand geometric symbolism, and resonates with a powerful energy which is doubled by the artist’s evocative palette. Here, the artist ascribes each colour he uses with symbolic meaning, carrying their import beyond the realm of the visual. Hehat in addition to constituting the colour spectrum of the visible world, the primary palette of red, blue, yellow, white and black also represents the fundamental elements of creation – fire, water, earth, sky and air.
A deeper look into the art and philosophy of S.H Raza : India's most famous contemporary abstract artist. Includes activities for children and families.
A deeper look into the art and philosophy of S.H Raza : India's most famous contemporary abstract artist. Includes activities for children and families.
A deeper look into the art and philosophy of S.H Raza : India's most famous contemporary abstract artist. Includes activities for children and families.
A deeper look into the art and philosophy of S.H Raza : India's most famous contemporary abstract artist. Includes activities for children and families.
Sayed Haider “S.H. Raza” was a renowned modern Indian artist known for his ‘Bindu’ paintings. His colorful abstract paintings reference Indian culture, icons and philosophy. Browse prints online by S. H. Raza or visit Laasya Art gallery in Palo Alto (San Francisco Bay Area). Laasya Art gallery helps collectors to buy art by S.H. Raza.
A major retrospective traces the evolution of one of India’s finest modernist artists.
A major retrospective traces the evolution of one of India’s finest modernist artists.
Autumn Art Auction
'Raza exemplified a sense of warmth and a connectedness to his roots and to Indian earth.'
Saffronart's Winter Online Auction on 9 - 10 December 2019 features three significant paintings that chart the trajectory of S H Raza's career. We take a look at some of the places that influenced this seminal artist.
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A deeper look into the art and philosophy of S.H Raza : India's most famous contemporary abstract artist. Includes activities for children and families.
