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The Divine Love 2
The Divine Love 2
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Artist: Nawal Kishore
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 24 × 24 inches (60.96 × 60.96 cm)
Year: 2021
The Divine Love is a compelling visual meditation on duality, emotion, and inner harmony, presented through a bold, vibrant composition that seamlessly blends abstraction with figuration. The painting centers on a stylized female figure, rendered with expressive brushwork and a saturated palette that commands immediate attention.
The woman’s face is the focal point, an arresting fusion of two contrasting halves that symbolize complexity, balance, or perhaps the interplay of divine and human emotion. One side of the face, drenched in vivid red and accented with orange tones, radiates warmth, vitality, and passion. In striking contrast, the other half is composed of cool blues and whites, taking on a sculptural, mask-like appearance that evokes serenity, mystery, or transcendence. The two sides merge organically into a singular visage, emphasizing Kishore’s masterful ability to unify contrasting energies within a single form.
Her attire, a textured blue dress with intricate patterns, adds richness and depth to the composition. The brushstrokes here are deliberate, enhancing the impression of woven fabric and grounding the figure in both physical presence and symbolic meaning. The arms and shoulders, painted in luminous tones of orange and reddish-brown, extend the warmth of the red facial half and suggest a life force pulsing through the body.
The background is equally significant. A warm, brownish-gold field with a mottled, layered texture envelops the subject in an aura of timelessness. It provides a serene yet glowing contrast to the bold figure, allowing the colors of the woman to emerge vibrantly while reinforcing the emotional and spiritual themes of the piece. Executed in acrylic on canvas, The Divine Love is both contemporary in technique and timeless in theme. The geometric stylization, textured surfaces, and contrasting color theory evoke influences of modernist abstraction and Indian folk expression, yet the result is entirely Kishore’s own. This painting invites contemplation not just of its aesthetics but of its symbolic essence. Through dynamic color juxtapositions and compositional balance, Nawal Kishore explores the sacred unity of love, identity, and the self, where opposites meet, merge, and ultimately, transform.
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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.