Real life paintings - Rajkumar Sthabathy
Rajkumar Sthabathy born 1975, working in a studio on the outskirts of the international city of Auroville. This artist has managed to capture the essence of India in his work. One glance at the faces of his subjects, be it a rickshaw driver, fish seller or water carrier is to be transported to the scenes so familiar. So invocotive are his paintings that one can almost feel the heat, start to brush away the dust, the flies, smell the chapatis and hear the sound of street vendors.
When I paint, I want people to understand and look at the magnitude of emotions that these portraits depict. The wide smile of a street vendor, the lost expression of a priest, the reminiscing face of a woman and the happy laugh of a child. These aren’t just portraits, it a window into the myriad of human emotions. There is a huge tidal wave of change taking place in our society, these people are not a part of it and I see them to be the conservators of our culture. To me, emotions are what make a man human. Lacking that, he is living a lie and not fulfilling his purpose. My paintings show just the tip of the iceberg of an ocean of innumerable emotions.
Art not only for connoisseurs. Posted by Margaret
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