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Raag Pura Dhanashri
Raag Pura Dhanashri
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Artist: Laxman Pai
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 32 × 26 in (81.28 × 66.04 cm)
Year: 1965
This is a vibrant abstract composition that evokes the energy and rhythm of a dynamic landscape. The painting demonstrates Pai’s mastery of color, form, and texture, transforming the canvas into a space alive with movement and emotion. Shapes overlap and intertwine in a rhythmic interplay, suggesting mountains, water, or human figures, yet without precise representation. The viewer’s eye is guided across the canvas by the intensity of color, the layering of forms, and the subtle interplay between dense and open areas, creating a sense of depth and visual exploration.
The color palette is bold and expressive. Reds, blues, blacks, and touches of yellows interact dynamically, generating a feeling of energy, tension, and emotional resonance. Pai’s brushwork enhances this effect: thick, textured applications of oil paint provide a tactile quality, while thinner washes create transparency and depth. The juxtaposition of gestural strokes with layered shapes suggests both abstraction and a subtle nod to natural forms. The forms themselves remain open to interpretation, allowing viewers to engage with the painting intuitively and emotionally rather than literally.
The composition exudes spontaneity and immediacy. While the placement of elements is organized to create balance, Pai’s abstraction prioritizes emotional impact over strict representational accuracy. The painting captures the power of nature, the movement of landscapes, and perhaps even the rhythm of musical influence suggested by the title, Raag Pura Dhanashri. The energetic brushwork and dramatic contrasts in light and dark convey a mood that is simultaneously turbulent, meditative, and intensely expressive. Through Raag Pura Dhanashri, Pai communicates the essence of landscape as felt rather than seen. His abstraction invites the viewer into a space where color, texture, and form merge to create a sensory and emotional experience. The painting exemplifies Pai’s ability to translate internal rhythms—musical, natural, and emotional—into a visual language, rendering the canvas a site of dynamic tension, lyrical energy, and contemplative engagement.
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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.