Paintings highlighting the ills committed by human society
L.Raghunanda
4th Estate
Bangalore
It is not ordinary paintings if it is looked from today’s societal context and his painting highlight about the issue raging the contemporary global society in which we everyone are part of it
Muralidahr V.Rathod acclaimed illustrator, cartoonist, and designer, and now painter who has reputation of having worked in major newspaper like Prajavani, Udayavani, Kannada Times and Vikranth Karnataka and gained enough insights on whole lot of contemporary art forms
L.Raghunanda
4th Estate
Bangalore
It is not ordinary paintings if it is looked from today’s societal context and his painting highlight about the issue raging the contemporary global society in which we everyone are part of it
Muralidahr V.Rathod acclaimed illustrator, cartoonist, and designer, and now painter who has reputation of having worked in major newspaper like Prajavani, Udayavani, Kannada Times and Vikranth Karnataka and gained enough insights on whole lot of contemporary art forms
Rathod paintings exhibited at Venkatappa Art Galllery under the title “Headlines Once Again” last week had it all for every art lovers to see it take it global warming, the traffic hazards seen in present cities of the world, sins the man commits and continue to do so.
Also of replica of holy scripture each religion uses to unleash terror and exercise authority at different level, forcibly using religion to achieve the hidden objective.
Rathod explaining about his art bemoaning said “the art work he has engaged in giving it a shape and see that art explains the ills of present society the paintings as a whole is work that has been the labour of two years”
“Any art be it painting or sculpture has certain things as subject on which the art has been in place” he explained taking around the visitors in the exhibition gallery, of many visitors at the gallery I was one of them.
On the contemporary art which his paintings has mostly been most part has gained primordial importance for sole reason of it highlighting the “ills raging our society” and his paintings has one colour most dominantly see that is red and because there is “violent images,” and here colour red is rightly used.
Painting on “global warming” under his masterful hand work reflect both globalization and global warming both, the dark backdrop in his each of painting represent the gloom brought about by global warming.
The skeleton of the fish and burning globe above suggest the impact of destruction and the violence unleashed upon the world from several directions.
Then horrific tale of violence in which child is found suspended in the air under the globe in one of paintings on canvas reminds us of breast of a mother which has seized to be a life giving source.
There were many paintings of the Rathod on global warming like dream like backdrop where a child moving towards twin images resembling breasts held by clips and clips representing the two different faces of woman, this paintings suggest chasm existing between child and mother earth which is controlled by the invisible forces, and union between the two seems to remain a mirage.
His paintings on crime where homeless boy with African and Indian features holding a slate in his hands reflects the agony and helplessness of the orphans all over the world, and strange determination on the boy’s face which represent the rage of the millions of helpless children across the globe.
One single painting on traffic attempts to portray the symbolic representation of the woman’s body and miserable state of sex workers life.
Of many paintings on the “sins committed by humanity” there is use of methapor of primordial sin of Adam and Eve with ironical tone have made a creative use of different positions of the hand to capture two different dimensions of power.
Also Rathod paintings on “sins committed by humanity” in one of the paintings there is one particular feature that is human hand being source of destruction, it is seen in this paintings where a person in his hand is holding not the pen but missile of destruction in signing the declaration.
There is blood spill, not the ink, this paintings is referred to rulers who in the name of signing the declaration of arms exchange treaty, by signing the very agreement, the paintings reminds to the observer that the rulers are taking the whole humanity towards destruction and pain.
Also of replica of holy scripture each religion uses to unleash terror and exercise authority at different level, forcibly using religion to achieve the hidden objective.
Rathod explaining about his art bemoaning said “the art work he has engaged in giving it a shape and see that art explains the ills of present society the paintings as a whole is work that has been the labour of two years”
“Any art be it painting or sculpture has certain things as subject on which the art has been in place” he explained taking around the visitors in the exhibition gallery, of many visitors at the gallery I was one of them.
On the contemporary art which his paintings has mostly been most part has gained primordial importance for sole reason of it highlighting the “ills raging our society” and his paintings has one colour most dominantly see that is red and because there is “violent images,” and here colour red is rightly used.
Painting on “global warming” under his masterful hand work reflect both globalization and global warming both, the dark backdrop in his each of painting represent the gloom brought about by global warming.
The skeleton of the fish and burning globe above suggest the impact of destruction and the violence unleashed upon the world from several directions.
Then horrific tale of violence in which child is found suspended in the air under the globe in one of paintings on canvas reminds us of breast of a mother which has seized to be a life giving source.
There were many paintings of the Rathod on global warming like dream like backdrop where a child moving towards twin images resembling breasts held by clips and clips representing the two different faces of woman, this paintings suggest chasm existing between child and mother earth which is controlled by the invisible forces, and union between the two seems to remain a mirage.
His paintings on crime where homeless boy with African and Indian features holding a slate in his hands reflects the agony and helplessness of the orphans all over the world, and strange determination on the boy’s face which represent the rage of the millions of helpless children across the globe.
One single painting on traffic attempts to portray the symbolic representation of the woman’s body and miserable state of sex workers life.
Of many paintings on the “sins committed by humanity” there is use of methapor of primordial sin of Adam and Eve with ironical tone have made a creative use of different positions of the hand to capture two different dimensions of power.
Also Rathod paintings on “sins committed by humanity” in one of the paintings there is one particular feature that is human hand being source of destruction, it is seen in this paintings where a person in his hand is holding not the pen but missile of destruction in signing the declaration.
There is blood spill, not the ink, this paintings is referred to rulers who in the name of signing the declaration of arms exchange treaty, by signing the very agreement, the paintings reminds to the observer that the rulers are taking the whole humanity towards destruction and pain.
Of his many paintings there is two of the sculpture part of Rathod exhibition, one is female mannequin wrapped with electric wire, this sculpture in mannequin form suggest that human body is imbibed with energy with enough energy, and much is generated.
This mannequin is “experimentation tried where modern scientist reasearcehr technologist would experiment with and I tried to experiment in my art form” is what Rathod said when asked
And “Save Me” child dumped in the garbage crying manifest on the deep moral fallacy, the neglect of the child and ignorance the mother who is not able to feed baby, because of hunger and not able to support herself
Also it suggest that women who had undergone abortion, just threw the child without considering the cost of life this is shown by Rathod by placing garbage and placing toy child, with blood lit.
This mannequin is “experimentation tried where modern scientist reasearcehr technologist would experiment with and I tried to experiment in my art form” is what Rathod said when asked
And “Save Me” child dumped in the garbage crying manifest on the deep moral fallacy, the neglect of the child and ignorance the mother who is not able to feed baby, because of hunger and not able to support herself
Also it suggest that women who had undergone abortion, just threw the child without considering the cost of life this is shown by Rathod by placing garbage and placing toy child, with blood lit.
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