Gallery Silver Scpaes
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Artist: Anurag Anand
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Board
Size: 24 x 18 inches (60.96 × 45.72 cm)
Year: 2024
This evocative expressionistic village scene captures a poignant sense of quiet resilience and lived history. Executed in textured brushwork and a subdued palette of beiges, browns, and ochres, the painting immerses viewers in a contemplative rural environment, one marked by memory, time, and emotional depth rather than spectacle or grandeur. The work is rich in atmosphere, with each stroke contributing to the feeling of a place shaped as much by weather and wear as by human presence.
Composition is a narrow, meandering path that draws the viewer through the landscape, guiding the eye between modest, weathered structures. These buildings, softened by age and rendered with a tactile surface quality, stand as quiet witnesses to past generations. Their irregular shapes and earthy tones suggest the passage of time, structures built by hand, altered by use, and softened by memory.
Vegetation, rendered in subtle strokes, weaves into the architectural forms and shadows, deepening the sense of space and creating a seamless integration of the natural and manmade. The foliage and darkened crevices help to establish a spatial rhythm, giving the viewer room to move through the scene slowly, taking in the visual texture and layered detail. Overhead, an overcast sky rests heavily on the horizon, lending the work a mood of reflection and emotional stillness. The artist’s layered technique and use of tonal contrast further enrich the composition. Rather than sharp delineations, there are transitions, soft gradations of light and shade that mirror the slow erosion of time and the fading contours of memory. This visual softness is not without strength; it speaks to endurance, to places that persist even as their outlines blur.
A deeply humanistic form of landscape painting, one that emphasizes emotional connection over documentation. The expressionistic style allows for poetic nuance, giving form to the intangible: the silence after rain, the weight of the air, the presence of generations past. The painting invites viewers not just to see a village, but to feel its pulse, to experience its resilience, its dignity, and its quiet beauty. This scene is a meditation on place and presence, inviting a moment of stillness in which memory and material gently converge.
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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.