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Artist: Anurag Anand
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 33 x 60 inches (83.82 × 152.4 cm)
Year: 2025
Anurag Anand’s powerful acrylic on canvas work offers a compelling meditation on urban life and the complex emotional terrain navigated by city dwellers. Faceless figures emerge from a fragmented architectural landscape, embodying the anonymity, resilience, and shared struggles of individuals within the modern metropolis. Through bold, confident lines and a warm, fractured palette, Anand explores the nuanced relationship between people and the dynamic cityscape they inhabit.
The composition’s fragmented buildings evoke the constantly shifting nature of urban environments, spaces simultaneously familiar and alienating, layered with memory and meaning. Anand’s faceless figures serve as universal symbols of humanity, representing the multitude of experiences and emotions that coexist within crowded city life. Their anonymity invites viewers to project their own stories and reflections onto the scene, fostering a personal connection with the artwork. Anand’s use of warm tones, earthy ochres, deep reds, and muted browns, interspersed with softer hues creates a textured, almost mosaic-like effect that enhances the sense of fragmentation and multiplicity. The fractured palette underscores the tensions and contradictions inherent in urban existence: connection and isolation, permanence and flux, struggle and hope. Through this interplay of color and form, the painting resonates emotionally, reflecting both the resilience and vulnerability embedded in daily urban experience.
The artist’s dynamic brushwork and layered acrylic application bring vitality and depth to the piece, guiding the viewer’s gaze through a rhythm of intersecting planes and overlapping figures. The urban landscape becomes not just a backdrop, but an active participant in the narrative, shaping and being shaped by the lives within it. Anand’s skillful fusion of abstraction and figuration to explore contemporary themes of identity, community, and memory. It invites viewers into a contemplative space where the visible and invisible aspects of city life coexist, encouraging reflection on how individuals find meaning and resilience amid rapid urban change. This painting stands as a poignant tribute to the shared humanity at the heart of the modern city, making it a significant addition to collections focused on urbanity, social experience, and contemporary cultural narratives.
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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.