"I am a post graduate from Sir J.J. School of Art in 1991 and rediscovered myself during this learning curve firmly subscribing to the thought that every portrait that is painted with feelings portrait of artist. Having experimented in profoundly in Oil, Watercolor, Pastel, and Charcoal, I comprehended that the irresistible charm of human countenance and face line challenged my brush skills to realistic paintings. My aesthetics drew me to situational paintings that were invariably in black and white on the conviction that these two colours were effective surrogates for human expression. I postulate that the wrinkle lines on the faces of old people narrate a silent saga of struggle. In this exhibition I present in mix medium and charcoal, pen, pastel...., the style of the paintings is based on realism."
Bharti Tike
"I draw PAINTINGS, only to find what form a certain emotion, a certain feeling of my heart, can take on a canvas. In my efforts to express that feeling, a picture emerges." If someone meditates on that picture, he can experience the same emotion as was present in the painter’s heart. When you see my paintings, you just see a form; you don’t realize that the soul of my inner artist is entering you. Those criss-cross lines on the canvas are not just the lines of that form. If you concentrate on them, a picture with criss-cross lines will emerge within you too... because it is the nature of the mind that it vibrates in you with a similar resonance to that which it sees outside it. You probably do not know that the joy, which you feel when you see my paintings, is so much because of the geometry itself but because of the symmetry of its petals, which is also induced in you. When you are attracted to a beautiful face of someone, it is not because of that person’s beauty but because it corresponds to your inner image of beauty. It produces a resonance of beauty in you which makes you feel that something within you is also beautified. In a similar way, the presence of an ugly face makes you feel uncomfortable. The experience of joy in the presence of someone who is beautiful is because of the flow of beauty which it brings about in you, making you also more beautiful. Ugliness means that something is disproportionate, crude, non-symmetrical and crooked; and this evokes in us a feeling of disharmony, repulsion, disorder and discomfort.
In India, three words are very important: one is Tantra, which we are talking about, another is Mantra, and the third is Yantra. Tantra means techniques for expanding your consciousness. Mantra means finding your inner sound, your inner rhythm, your inner vibration. Once you have found your Mantra, it is of tremendous help: just one utterance of the Mantra and you are in a totally different world. That becomes the key, the passage, because once uttering that Mantra, you fall into your natural vibe. And the third is Yantra. These statues are Yantras. Yantra means a certain figure, which can create a certain state in you. A certain figure, if you look at it, is bound to create a certain state in you. Same all are in my paintings.
When you watch something, it is not only that the figure is outside – when you watch something, the figure creates a certain situation ‘objective art’. And you know it: listening to modern pop music, something happens in you – you become more excited same my paintings you will get that happiness in inner heart.. There is nothing but sound outside, but the sound hits inside – creates something in you. Very beautiful creations like my paintings..."
Pravin Gangurde