Gallery Silver Scpaes
Charcoal Silence - II
Charcoal Silence - II
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Artist: Anurag Anand
Medium: Mixed Media on Handmade Paper
Size: 13 x 10 inches (33.02 × 25.4 cm)
Year: 2023
This impressionistic village sketch offers a poetic glimpse into rural life through a refined balance of abstraction, simplicity, and texture. Clustered buildings, rendered in dark grays and blacks, emerge from a warm beige background, forming a compact architectural mass that hints at a tightly knit settlement. Rather than focusing on precise detail, the artist employs simplified shapes and expressive strokes to evoke mood, memory, and spatial complexity. The loose, textured brushwork invites a sense of movement and atmospheric depth. Shadows blur into structures, and outlines remain suggestive rather than fixed, lending the composition a dreamlike quality. The ambiguity between solid form and open space draws viewers in, encouraging them to interpret the village’s layout intuitively, guided by tone, texture, and rhythm rather than literal perspective.
Subtle yet distinct features enhance the composition’s visual interest. A tower-like structure rises amid the clustered rooftops, introducing a vertical accent that gently breaks the horizontal arrangement. Rounded forms, perhaps a dome or hill, add contrast and soft curvature, balancing the angularity of the built environment. Elements of vegetation are interspersed throughout, depicted with minimal strokes yet contributing a sense of life and organic presence. The textured surface, likely the result of varied application techniques, adds a tactile dimension to the work, reinforcing its material immediacy. This subtle relief invites the viewer to not only observe but almost feel the terrain and architectural fabric of the scene. The presence of the artist’s visible signature, subtly integrated into the lower area of the composition, provides both authenticity and a personal anchoring point, affirming the intimate connection between artist, subject, and viewer.
The work reflects the ethos of impressionistic minimalism, where restraint in form leads to expansiveness in interpretation. It captures the essence of place through mood rather than map, creating a powerful emotional resonance through a few deft marks and tonal shifts. This economy of means does not diminish the work’s impact; rather, it heightens it, distilling memory, place, and imagination into a quiet yet enduring image. This sketch stands as a tribute to the emotive power of simplification. It is an invitation to pause, reflect, and engage with the beauty of the understated—where a village is not just seen, but deeply felt
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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.