medial 3. art biennial
[2009]
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SS Bhatti
India
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1.Eucalyptuses,
1980 Oil Pastel 22”x30” US$ 8000 2.Wild
Grass,
1982 Water Color 15”x22” US$ 6000
3.Birth
of Adam,
1973 Sponge & Water Color 22”x15” US$ 3000 4.Cock
Fight, 1976 Poster Color 30”x22” US$ 5000 5.Rose
Garden,
1971 Oil Pastel 30”x22” US$ 5000
6.Water
falls,
1985 Water Color 30”x22” Not for Sale 7.Derring
Do, 1998 Water Color 30”x22” US$ 10000 8.Light
House,
Light House 1975 Water Color 15”x11” US$ 2000 |
CREATIVITY:
Thematic and Mediumistic Variations / Creativity is a perennial adventure
into the realm of the human spirit.
The major components of Creativity are art and craft, representing
sensibility and design, and skill and dexterity, respectively. The two are
interdependent in an indispensable way. Art without Craft can remain only in
the area of aesthetic appreciation. Craft without Art often ends up as a
juggler’s show of skill for its own sake. Creativity is a Whole, born in the
contemplative commingling of Art and Craft, and transcending its two
constituent parts–Art and Craft–as individual faculties/entities to move
effortlessly into artistic creation which lies in the realm of significance.
My work covers a wide range of themes and their variations. The
subject-matter varies from landscape, religion, and mythology, etc. to
abstraction, symbolism, metaphysics, etc. Depending on the theme, the
material is changed to express it as aptly (and evocatively) as possible.
Different kinds of painting surface such as handmade, ivory,
machine-textured sheets of paper, thus come handy. Use of palette i.e. the
color scheme and painting/drawing material, like gouache, water color, oil
pastels, crayons, color inks, are also accordingly adapted to the content
(idea) and form (expression) of the art work. Drawing and painting technique
is varied to achieve the desired visual effect in terms of color and texture
for the enrichment of the creative expression. I have no qualms in using
equipment like brushes, pens, markers, blades, palette-knives, sand-paper,
sponges--singly or in combination–-so long as I can accomplish the aim I set
for myself anew every time. In certain cases, I have peeled off the handmade
sheet to create such new visual effects as are not possible by using
conventional techniques of painting. Since my artistic goal is to “express
emotion”–-rather than “evoke emotion”–-inventiveness in technique i.e. the
craft is as important as the variation of metaphor i.e. the creativity of
art. To make “emotion” live perennially through my work, I inject the
philosophic and the spiritual substance of my perception into whatever I
paint, draw, print, and sculpt. The viewers should make a sincere attempt to
discover for themselves the afore-mentioned thematic and mediumistic
variations, which I regard to be the hallmark of my work as a “self-taught”
artist. My education as an architect makes me feel that I have the distinct
advantage of being able to see the breathtaking beauty of the landscape in
the profundity of a religious, mythological, or metaphysical subject, and
the elusive quality of the latter in the perennial charm of inner aesthetic
of the former. My art is the mystic externalization of my deeper urges to
communicate to other human beings the dear delight of my encounters with the
beauty and bounty of life, nature, and the world as manifest existence.
Dr SS Bhatti,
Former Principal, Chandigarh College of Architecture
3314, Sector 15-D, Chandigarh-160015 [INDIA] Phone: +91-172-2773258 [R]
