22/02/2024
Beautiful Memory of a wonderful day I met the master himself S H Raza sahib at NGMA , NEW DELHI Amirta Shergill inaugural show and he most graciously signed this beautiful print for me in person.
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One of India’s seminal modernists, Syed Haider Raza, born on, forged a new language of art by integrating Indian symbolism with Western expression. Raza sahib almost exclusively excluded the human figure from his vocabulary, choosing landscapes instead. In the 1960s, he drifted away from realistic landscapes towards ‘gestural expressionism’, a form of abstraction. Ultimately, Raza’s paintings evolved from his childhood memories of dense forests and the river Narmada, the bright colours of the Indian market and the French countryside with its quaint villages and steepled churches, as if drawn towards the black dot—the bindu—drawn by his schoolteacher as an attempt to help him focus and meditate. The imagery transmuted into geometrical lines and intense bursts of colour on canvas in a geometrical exploration of ta***ic symbolism.
"𝘐 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳, 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯’ – S. H. Raza"
Shown here is a picture taken at NGMA, where I can be seen in front of Raza sahib after he signed the print bought by me from the NGMA Shop collection . and feeling blessed .
