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Bridging Realities
Bridging Realities
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Artist: Anurag Anand
Medium: Acrylic on Paper
Size: 16 × 23.5 inches (40.64 × 59.69 cm)
Year: 2024
Bridging Realities presents an enchanting rural landscape rendered in a style deeply rooted in the traditions of naive and folk art. The painting captures a serene village scene where natural forms and architectural elements coexist in harmonious balance, emphasizing mood and atmosphere over literal representation. This work draws the viewer into a world that is both imaginative and evocative, offering a contemplative vision of countryside life imbued with warmth and tranquility.
Composition is a cream-colored house with a sharply defined triangular roof, anchoring the mid-ground with its simple yet bold form. This structure, alongside other angular and stylized buildings scattered across gently rolling hills, evokes a timeless village setting. The artist’s deliberate use of vibrant yet muted tones, notably reds, browns, blues, and yellows, infuses the landscape with subtle energy, while maintaining a cohesive and soothing palette.
The meandering stream, painted in soft yet rich blue hues, introduces a fluid dynamism that contrasts beautifully with the solidity of the architecture. A delicately rendered bridge spans this narrow watercourse, symbolically connecting different parts of the village and, perhaps metaphorically, bridging the realms of reality and imagination, as the title suggests.
Anurag Anand’s application of bold, textured brushstrokes adds tactile richness to the surface, enhancing the painting’s expressive quality. Scattered throughout the landscape are clusters of deep purple flowers and vegetation, their presence punctuating the composition with bursts of color and life. The stylized trees, rendered predominantly in warm red tones with thick, winding branches, serve as both natural anchors and decorative motifs, reinforcing the folk art sensibility and emphasizing the organic rhythm of the environment. The overall effect is one of gentle narrative and visual poetry, where simplified forms and symbolic color harmonies evoke an intimate connection to place. Rather than striving for photographic realism, Bridging Realities invites viewers to experience the emotional and spiritual resonance of the landscape, highlighting the beauty found in everyday rural existence.
This work stands as a testament to Anurag Anand’s ability to blend tradition with personal vision, crafting a scene that is both accessible and profound, a meditative exploration of landscape as lived experience and poetic metaphor.
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Art has always, naturally, reflected the development and exploration of different thoughts and perceptions, and our current postmodern era is no different. It is interesting to see how art has evolved visually, yet the traditional methods of composing art remain a valid means of expression.
All it takes for an artist to rise above normalcy, is inspiration, which fuels his passion to paint beautiful creations throughout his life.
The valuable expression of art is always there with us, but now this expression is yet to take an interesting diversion with our art gallery, Gallery Silver Scapes, located in Hauz Khas Enclave. Art is no longer considered just decorative but has evolved and come forth as a major form of investment yielding high rates of returns for its buyers, making it an expression commonly used.
Mrs Mayor was walked into the art world by the legendary modernist Bimal Das Gupta, one of whose biggest collections remains with Gallery Silver Scapes. In the 1980s, as head and first curator of the Habiart Gallery founded by Mrs Rekha Modi — a childhood friend — Mrs Mayor worked closely with and curated shows for renowned artists such as A Ramachandran, GR Santosh, Rameshwar Broota, Sakti Burman, MK Bardhan, Dhiraj Chaudhury, M Sivanesan, and Arup Das among others.
Besides modern masters, she also worked with young contemporaries such as Sudip Roy, Paresh Maity, Subroto Kundu, Vinod Sharma, and many more. Artworks commissioned by her are now part of prestigious collections, such as those of the India Habitat Centre, Ranbaxy, Pepsi, Hotel Lalit, Bank of America, and many more private and public collections.