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Night Watch - II
Night Watch - II
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Artist: Anurag Anand
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 24 × 48 inches (60.96 × 121.92 cm)
Year: 2024
In Night Watch – II, Anurag Anand conjures a richly atmospheric nocturne where the rhythms of urban life pulse quietly beneath a moonlit sky. Rendered in acrylic on canvas, this evocative cityscape weaves impressionistic texture with symbolic nuance, inviting viewers into a contemplative world where architecture, light, and enigmatic presence coalesce.
The composition unfolds across a sprawling city skyline, its buildings rising in varied silhouettes of browns, ochres, muted oranges, and industrial grays. Each edifice is meticulously defined yet softened by Anand’s painterly technique, suggesting the passage of time and the layered histories that cities accumulate. Windows glow with subtle luminosity, hinting at unseen lives and private interiors, their warmth punctuating the otherwise shadowed palette with delicate intensity.
Dominating the upper register of the canvas is a large, pale yellow moon, its light gently diffused by a veil of atmospheric clouds. This celestial presence anchors the scene, casting a poetic glow that reflects on rooftops and façades, lending the work a dreamy, introspective quality. The contrast between the darkened structures and the moon’s ethereal radiance heightens the painting’s sense of temporal stillness, night as a space of both rest and revelation. A striking and surreal element emerges in the foreground: a chameleon-like creature perched silently on a rooftop. Its presence injects the work with a layer of symbolism, blurring the line between observation and metamorphosis. This sentinel figure may be read as a metaphor for vigilance, adaptability, or the watchful stillness that defines the urban night. Nearby, a patch of greenery softens the composition’s built environment, subtly invoking nature’s quiet resilience amid human construction.
Executed with a tactile brushwork and an eye for tonal harmony, Night Watch – II is more than a cityscape, it is a lyrical meditation on solitude, transformation, and the enigmatic life that unfolds after dusk. Anand’s deft interplay of structure and spontaneity evokes not just a place, but a psychological terrain: a world observed from above, alive with muted tension and reflective calm. Through this work, Anurag Anand captures the essence of the urban night as a liminal space where mystery, stillness, and presence intermingle, inviting the viewer to become, like the chameleon, both witness and participant in the city’s quiet watch.
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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.