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Ethnic, well defined lines
P.M.P.M.
ART SURELY is an expression from the depths of one's very being. Deepa V Namboodiri's art exhibition at Chitram Art Gallery, Kochi, revealed her exposure to the two worlds she has been used to. Everything ethnic in the Namboodiri household and the crass urbanisation of the desertland where she has made her second home, in the Gulf comes across on colour in her works.
Her grounding in the art she practises comes from her degree and post graduate degree courses done at the Kerala University and M. G. University. Deepa has exhibited her works in several galleries and used this talent, working in advertisement agencies too. Now, as homemaker, Deepa has at last found time for her artistic pursuits. Oil is the dominating medium, though she dabbles in acrylics and pencils.
The ethnic forms of theyyam and other truly Keralite art forms abound in the 30 paintings displayed. The colours are vibrant and her lines well defined. The details scream out at you from the beams of the building that forms the backdrop of the figure, from the patterns on the headgear of the characters and even the facial features.
One painting, chosen cleverly for the brochure, shows two sides of her world, the stark difference in them; the left side with the coconut palms swaying, a country craft lazing along the backwaters and a lonesome house beyond, and the right with swanky buildings, a mosque, sand dunes and cars on a clean street. Not much imagination needed to link the two, but an aeroplane does, bang in the middle of these two sides, throwing any doubt you had, out the window.
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