Heritage 22

Artist- Ravi Kumar Agrahari
Ravi Kumar Agrahari celebrates the oriental, which is visible in his etchings. The theme of his works is the celebration of the old city, its landmarks, its ethos, its symbols…. All together with their ornaments, motifs, and patterns. The miniature style of painting reinforce the ambience of the era gone by. There is a whiff of the modern as one of the layers as an abstract geometrical pattern or erratic line work. The traditional characters of the emperor and the empress are juxtaposed with contemporary figures. The grandiose bulbous domes, the cusped arches, the minarets form a layer with the multi-storeyed buildings nestled in the immediate next. The elephant, which seems to be the thread that weaves this series together, is so realistic and so ornate at the same time. The scale in the compositions varies and that reverberates the style of the miniatures where the scale and perspective were not important.