Shabd Rang: Alchemy of Painting & Poetry

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Shabd Rang The Alchemy of Painting & Poetry “Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks” Simonides The art today be it literary or visual is cornucopia of conflicting ideas, issues and ideologies. The idea of making ‘Shabad Rang’ by Kanwal Nayan Kapoor is to bring together the two different medium, painting and poetry on a same stage. In that experiment both the painting and poetry emerged out of their boundaries. Kanval Nayan Kapoor is the multi-faceted artist in the sphere of art and literature. He is an adept poet, dramatist and short story writer. In all art forms he repeatedly and boldly experiments with new forms and styles. His extensive and creative artistic journey marked by constantly evolving phases from poetry to painting. He goes deep in the process of making of his painting and in doing so, he try to explore the visual medium of expression. He is unaware of contemporary trends in painting, which gives a certain kind of versatility to his expression. He depicts the symbolic images in his paintings derived from the symbolism evoked in his poems. As he said “I start a painting with a combination of several images from a poem. Discovery and suggestion from my imagination emerge during the process of making and are a supplement to the poetry.” The result has the intrinsic value of both poem and painting. Most of his paintings included here a testimony to diversity. Content of painting is allegorical, full of metaphor, connotation and ambiguity. In his painting ‘Mool Tatva’ he painted the upside down banyan tree with a red circle in the roots symbolized the ‘jad-mool Brahma’ and the tree is our material world that is constantly changing. In ‘Ankuran’ he paints the blossoming of the flower in between rocks, In ‘Shavas’ he depicted drops on the leaves as ephemeral breaths. In ‘Jeevan -2’ he tries to depict fragrance of flower
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