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Painting Prayers - HR Devulapalli
from June 2021
By Maramraju Venkata Manasa
Art stirs emotions. Ever evolving and always subjective, it can bond the artist, the medium and the viewer in a stunning triad, sometimes more intimately than the most intimate of lovers. A powerful stimuli, the emotions that get stirred depend on the viewer’s history, story and the moment when the art is received. When done right, art instantaneously destroys and creates both the artist and the viewer.
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Hyderabad-based artist - Hanumantha Rao Devulapalli’s colour-filled subliminal paintings often end up mesmerizing the observer while building an intimate relationship with them.
Bhramara - Celebrating plurality of thoughts, Bhramara serenades to the life giving Sun.
Having displayed his art in more than 100 exhibitions, he finds an artist’s perspective different from others. It is a perspective with high expectations from everything the artist interacts with and, most of all, with their own work.
Often, his work interprets his experiences and speaks to a quiet journey into a deep rumination. Setting him apart from art that portrays the world by painting three-dimensional spaces, his art reflects musings towards a world of ecstasy and delight.
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His artwork is the result of stabilizing layers of constantly moving images which reside in the far reaches of mind. The process which is intense and intricate is a play between the use of seven elements - colour, line, shape, form, texture, value and space.
In Purnodayam, the full moon and blue lotus illustrate the flourishing of nature or a man, while creating an enigmatic feel for the viewer. Imbibing philosophy and creating abstraction in his work is how he is uniquely identified.
Purnodayam
For him, painting was a natural instinct which started with scribbling in notebooks, caricaturing teachers and classmates. Their appreciation and attention used to encourage him to explore, but the seriousness to practice art came when he failed his 10th class board exams. In fact on the evening of his board results, he purchased a sketchbook, pencils and a colour set and started practicing art almost everyday which he does even today.
Exaltation
With a desire to create images that are pleasing, calming and meditative, an average sized artwork often takes weeks to finish. A self-confessed aesthete, he finds his ongoing desire to push the envelope on beauty as a weakness. Perhaps one day when he revisits his Exaltation which depicts liberation from worldly connections, he may relinquish the pursuit of beauty.
For now, our heart beams bright when we look at his Orange Fields, where sun rays spread over the fields and lay hands on the harvest terrain.
Orange Fields
Learn more about this prolific painter here - https://login.10times.com/brochure/ZWRpdGlvbl8xMDk2Njc0/NDMxMQ==
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