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The Moon
The Moon
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Artist: Nawal Kishore
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 24 × 24 inches (60.96 × 60.96 cm)
Year: 2021
Nawal Kishore’s The Moon is a visually arresting and emotionally layered painting that explores introspection, identity, and the shifting nature of inner experience. Centered on a solitary figure, likely a woman, rendered in an atmospheric palette of deep blue, violet, gray, and indigo, the composition invites the viewer into a space of quiet contemplation, where form and emotion merge. The figure is positioned in a crouched or seated pose, her body articulated with stylized abstraction. Fragmented and layered, her form is constructed through intersecting planes, delicate overlays, and gestural strokes that lend the piece a sculptural presence, even within the flatness of the canvas. These visual breaks do not diminish the figure’s humanity; rather, they enhance it, suggesting vulnerability, complexity, and the multiple emotional dimensions of the self.
Her head is turned in a slightly withdrawn, introspective angle, and her face, partially obscured, retains a haunting quietude. This lack of direct engagement with the viewer adds to the painting’s atmosphere of mystery, encouraging a more meditative, internal response. The figure’s cloak or garment, rich in subtle detailing, appears to envelop and shield her form, acting both as clothing and symbolic armor. Set against a vivid, unbroken background of crimson red, the cool-toned figure is thrust into sharp contrast, evoking themes of emotional intensity, solitude, and transformation. The red may be read as symbolic of passion, memory, or even a metaphoric lunar glow, depending on how one interprets the titular Moon.
Delicate geometric patterns, triangles, angular motifs, and ornamental lines, are interspersed throughout the figure, suggesting the influence of textile or folk design traditions, and adding layers of cultural resonance to the painting. These small design elements break up the surface further, functioning both as visual texture and metaphorical cues, fragments of thought, memory, or ritual. With The Moon, Nawal Kishore delivers a masterful synthesis of abstraction and narrative, using color, form, and composition to evoke the rhythms of solitude and inner reflection. It is a deeply emotive work, one that resists easy interpretation while offering a powerful encounter with the internal landscape of its subject.
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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.