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Lot Essay
Narayan Shridhar Bendre depicts a tender moment between mother and child in this quiet celebration of the pastoral. The young mother is seated on a dais, cradling the object of her affection. Other figures inhabit this tender scene, but their features are obscured; even the child is rendered secondary to the grace of the mother's form.
In this lyrical work, Bendre veers away from the strictures of Academic Realism, championing instead the Modernist idiom of Post- Impressionism, consequently painting a picture as emotive as it is narrative. In the 1970s and 80s, Bendre began experimenting with his own version of Pointillism, where the image is created with the use of pixel-like dots and small horizontal brushstrokes, and emphasis is placed on recording the artist's overall impression and the emotions of a scene. "[...] for me, the creative process begins with the blank canvas, by the dabbing of paint on it, the aim being to catch the overall impact of the total image conceived." (Artist statement, R. Chatterji, Bendre: The Painter and the Person, Singapore, 1990, p. 63)
In this lyrical work, Bendre veers away from the strictures of Academic Realism, championing instead the Modernist idiom of Post- Impressionism, consequently painting a picture as emotive as it is narrative. In the 1970s and 80s, Bendre began experimenting with his own version of Pointillism, where the image is created with the use of pixel-like dots and small horizontal brushstrokes, and emphasis is placed on recording the artist's overall impression and the emotions of a scene. "[...] for me, the creative process begins with the blank canvas, by the dabbing of paint on it, the aim being to catch the overall impact of the total image conceived." (Artist statement, R. Chatterji, Bendre: The Painter and the Person, Singapore, 1990, p. 63)