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Artist: Shobha Broota
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 36 × 36 inches (91.44 × 91.44 cm)
Year: 2022
With its meditative simplicity and chromatic precision, Shobha Broota’s painting presents a masterful exercise in geometric abstraction and sensory perception. Rendered in oil on canvas, the composition is anchored by a luminous lime-green field, across which evenly spaced, horizontal orange-yellow stripes subtly blur and dissolve into the background. This rhythmic patterning evokes a visual vibration, an optical cadence that invites contemplation rather than narrative.
Broota’s minimalist vocabulary is both restrained and resonant. The work eschews representational content in favor of a purely formal language, yet it pulses with an inner vitality that transcends its surface simplicity. The deliberate use of color and repetition becomes an instrument of transcendence, drawing on traditions of meditative abstraction and spiritual minimalism. The lime-green expanse, radiant and immersive, suggests both nature’s vibrancy and an internal, metaphysical landscape. The soft, slightly diffused orange-yellow lines hover just above the surface, creating a tension between stillness and motion, solidity and flux.
The surface is not flat but alive, imbued with a subtle tactile quality through Broota’s choice of medium and application. The use of oil paint, typically associated with material richness, is here harnessed to achieve an effect of weightless luminosity. The artist's sensitivity to nuance and spatial balance positions this work within the lineage of modernist formalism, while simultaneously invoking a contemplative aesthetic deeply rooted in Indian philosophical traditions. Framed in stark contrast by a dark border, the composition is given a sculptural gravitas, enclosing the expansive green field within a grounded, defined boundary. This architectural framing heightens the work’s meditative focus, containing and emphasizing its inner rhythm.
Shobha Broota’s practice consistently engages with the metaphysical potential of abstraction. In this piece, she channels that vision through simplicity, order, and repetition. The result is an artwork that serves not only as an object of visual pleasure but also as a site of introspection and quiet resonance, a silent symphony of color and form that lingers in the viewer’s perception long after the encounter has passed.
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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.