Post-Modernity in Indian Art has often dwindled in two directions: one mostly cerebral, the second thriving on passion or emotive faculty. Maneesha Doshi follows the later mode of expression.
The daughter of an eminent architect, with a Bachelor in Psychology, Maneesha studied painting at
Drawing close affinity with Mexican master Rufino Tamayo’s philosophy, Doshi’s art germinates from her inner being. It involves her emotion and passion for life and existence. Human persona coupled with the divine is the basic theme and characteristic of her expressions. She explores her very self, delves deeper into it and from the depth of her being tries to comprehend the world around her. She uses jubilant colors, carefully meditated atmosphere, flat compositions and simplified conception of forms to decipher the complexities of realities. When she steps out of herself and enters the world around her, the process of assimilation between ‘heart’ and ‘head’ begins. The end result is divine, tranquil, internal landscapes with vivid imageries narrating fables of her life as she lives each day.
By portraying woman as a deity in allegorical representations against mythological backdrops, decorated with devotional motifs such as flower garlands and lighted lamps in temple-like sanctums, Maneesha glorifies the feminine by raising it to the level of divinity.
How far she can control this synthesis of personal ideologies and spiritual themes depends upon her aesthetic success.
2 comments:
The painting in this picture is so lovely. Maneesha Doshi is a wonderful artist.
very dreamlike it its execution much of this work, very much an expression of a visionquest
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