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THE POWER OF COLOUR

            Anand  Prakash’s  explorations are primarily concerned with colour and secondarily with line. He just does not seem to ignore colour, except in one of his acrylics, of six studies with veins of white on deep dark declivities and as are witnessed in mountain gorges. This last mentioned composition is certainly a fetching one evoking subliminal memories of high lands. May be the painter could have included some few more such darker speculations in this showing. At any rate he is apt at atmospheric colours on space so as to sensitize his inner eye to the subtleties of abstract landscape by improving his techniques for rendering colour he is absorbed also in the structures of nature as much as her mood. The colours of nature are her mood. In this way he ekes out clouds of colour, as it were, and in the process to turn out diverse forms.

            Anand  Prakash’s  imagination works both  in a selective and inventive capacity. It can produce imagery from the store of a good visual memory or even the depths of the amorphous subconscious mind. Else, having some object as a starting point, it can visualize the possibilities of pictorial rhythms. The fact that we express our feelings in terms of colour is proof enough of the powerful effect that colour has upon as. Oh yes, we can do so much with colours. And so they are the most powerful influences in our lives. We rejoice in them except when the so called ‘Blue’ mood is on as. This painters colours become symbols with feelings, and they arouse feelings. They have the power to please or hurt us.

            Prakash  dwells on almost all the colours; red, yellow, green, blue, violet etc. If we look upon all his work in turn our imagination is flooded with different feeling states. The colour red is perhaps of inflamed passions. But it can also have different significance on different levels of physical, mental or the spiritual life. All colours similarly have different shades, several of which introduce and modify the others accordingly

            However, I would not like to dogmatize about colours. This artist using them sends out different messages, none of them far-fetched for not only does he comprehend the symbolism of colours, but he also has the power to transmute the drab and sordid and produce beauty from it, that is of to say, harmony quite as good music does. The music of authentic music, and the music colour painting is almost the same thing. So Anand prakash plays his piano of colours rather well. We may hear more soothing scores from him in time to come.