FIVE PORTRAITS BY ARTIST G. R. SANTOSH

                                     

            (Sharon Lowen)

                        (Self Portrait)

                       (Self Portrait )

                       (Dina Nath Nadim)

                            (Triloke Kaul)

FIVE  PORTRAITS   BY  ARTIST  G.R. SANTOSH...
(Photos  from the Book  ....'The Art of G R Santosh'  by Shantiveer Kaul..Roli Books  Pvt. Ltd. ISBN:81-7436-141-3 )

G R Santosh drew all these  portraits .Poet  Dina Nath Nadim (done in 1962 ) , Artist Triloke Kaul (done in 1963 ),   Sharon Lowen, Odissi dancer from America    (done in 1970 ) and two self-portraits (done in  1954 and 1966 one in Pablo Picasso mould and the other in the mould of Salvador Dali )  ) . In the book under reference , Shantiveer Kaul  writes this about the Neo  -Tantric art of  Santosh :-

“ Viewed from a certain perspective most of Santosh’s Neo-Tantric paintings look like stylised portraits of the female form, seated in Padmasana ( the lotus position ). This is no mere coincidence. There is a definite suggestion of the female torso in the placement of geometric elements within the composition. This stylisation is symptomatic of the devotion of Santosh for Shakti, the Divine Mother. Santosh wrote Shakti Vichara in 1980, a long poem in the hallowed tradition of the epic Bhavani Sahasranama , dwelling exclusively on Shakti in her various manifestations.”

(Avtar Mota )



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