When I first met Krishne Khanna in early 2001, a clean-shy gentleman in a sharp Kamarkot looked like an artist. I was the most designed in the community Kurta-jholas And, in the case of Khanna’s contemporary MF Hussain, with pride with his beard and uncontrolled white hair. In contrast, Khanna was cut off from a separate stock.
He started as a banker at Grindlaz Bank, but was always attracted to art. He will participate in exhibitions and meetings of progressive artists in the late 1950s and early 60s. Finally, in 1961, he quit his job to push art full -time forward. The stories are still told about how, on the last day, when he came out of the bank, he waited his friends to celebrate his new life to Gitonde, Hussain and Bal Chhabada.
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Krishne Khanna show in Vashehar Art Gallery | Photo Credit: Gulshan Sachdeva
Posted in Mumbai by 2010, Khanna moved to Delhi-Gurugram to live with her son. Over the years, in the cute farmhouse – with his wife Renu, 98, as his constant partner – his studio was filled with artifacts and memorabes from the period, often seen as the golden years of the group of progressive artists. “This was an amazing time to be an artist, and clearly I could not see myself doing anything else,” recalls the last living member of the group – in which FN Suja, Sh Raza, Hussain, Khe Arra, S. Reputed names like Bakr, Akbar Padmasi and Tyb Mehta were included. And Khanna, who turns 100 on July 5, continues to add to the collection, sketching and drawing almost every day, even a large painting themed themed themed themed.
An untital bronze and Petina sculpture by Krishan Khanna
“For almost half a century, Krishne Khanna has been at the forefront of modern Indian art, as an artist, interventionist and a man of imagination. At the top, he has clarified an aesthetic vision, which is deeply apical – an epic fantasy, which in a way, paints a moving chronicle of human conditions, which is a kind of human being, which is a kind of human being, which is a humanitarian, which is a kind of human being, which is a kind of human being, which is a kind of human being, which is a kind of human being, Which is human, which is human, which is human and is human. “Ashok VajpayeeHindi poet, critic and art lover
Poet Ashok Vajpaye | Photo Credit: RV Murthy
Support for margins
A large-scale self-centered artist, who went to win the Rockfeller Fellowship in 1962 and traveled abroad to be an artist-in-e-resident at the American University at Washington DC, he is known for his large body of work on partition India-Pakistan partition. Says Khanna, “As I lived in Lahore and studied at Government College, Pakistan was a part of my early life before I study at Imperial Service College in England.” His family moved to Shimla during partition, and the socio-political chaos that he had seen in his youth, later received expression in his canvas. “Talking about partition is not out of place, even in today’s milestone. As an artist, it takes time to remove emotions that was experienced as a child when the country was torn.”
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Khanna moved from abstract to human forms because, as he shared with London’s Grosvenner Gallery, he thought “the person or person is being neglected – in a particular situation the person who is affected by the surrounding conditions”. His support for margins shines strongly in his work reflecting pavement fruits, migrant laborers, and of course,, of course, Bandwallus,
“I have always praised Krishne Khanna’s artistic vision and his immense contribution to modern Indian art. His bandwells are distinguished – the way he holds the movement, music and social clothes of India, is deeply lyrical and cinematic about him. It is also that he has the ability to weave personal memory with national history. Not just an artist;Shalini PasiCollector, Philanthropist and Reality TV Star
Shalini Pasi, Art Collector | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
His Band The series is one of his most famous, which captures the reality of Delhi’s music manufacturers. Their red uniform and gold applalets are shown in succulent colors, which are rapidly opposite with their emotional expressions, which gives the audience insight in their uncertain life. “KNMA has the most seminal work in his collection by the artist. His recurrent character – truck driver, Bandwallus Perform or rest during the break, people DhabasWorkers on the streets – a sympathetic modernism and reflective of the expressive figs, “Kiran Nadar Museum of Art says director and chief curator Rubina Karod. His perspective won him by Padma Bhushan in 1999.
Untitledal (bandwala with drum)
“Krishne Khanna is a very sensitive artist. He looks deeply to choose his narratives, as he did in the Mahabharata series, where he focused on the mother’s pain in Abhimanyu’s mother. His faceless bandwells also touching something. I can spend more time with him. You can keep walking.AlelThe founder of Apparao Galleries, who has collected Khanna’s works from the 60s to recent times.
Sharan Apparao | Photo Credit: R. Ravindran
A life lived well
To celebrate his Shatabdi, The Raza Foundation – along with Vedahar Art Gallery, Gallery Espace, Art Alave Gallery, Progressive Art Gallery, and Gallery to celebrate Navya – a tribute is being organized at India International Center in New Delhi on July 4 – to celebrate Navya. It will have a two -hour colloquial facility on Khanna’s life and art, which is the screening of the film. the human condition (On Khanna’s life and art practice) by French director Laurent Brettte, and a dramatic reading of some pieces of correspondence between Khanna and his friends.
Krishman Khanna Cavity (2008, acrylic on canvas)
Crores said, “Krishna Khanna is undoubtedly a renaissance man among us.” “The rare gift of life to attack in a century, and being one of the most leading artists of India from a life-one banker, for a storyteller Samamlata, his eloquence as a painter, writer and orator has touched many of us’s lives.”
Kalpana Shah, the owner of the Tao Art Gallery in Mumbai, is such a person. A friend and colleague of Khanna, recently organized an important single show to mark 99 years of the artist’s creativity. Shah says, “I have known Krishaan about both professional and personally, and I have always found him Jovial, full of anecdotes and right gentlemen,” Shah says, saying that the show stopped his versatility, which featured sculptures, tapestry, sketches and paintings for six decades of his practice. One of the following Bandwallus Currently on performance in gallery.
Krishne Khanna with Kalpana Shah at the group show, MarkIn Tao Art Gallery
A Bandwallus Tapestry
“Krishne Khanna holds a unique and important place in the history of Indian art. Their association with the progressives is well known, but the inspirational that is also individually connected to the artists, teachers and community. Always appreciate the relevance of the Indian art and the wider cultural community of South Asia.”Roshni promiseFounder, promise art gallery
Roshni Promise | Photo Credit: Gulshan Sachdeva
For his birthday celebrations, Khanna plans to show his recent work. “It took me a long time to paint it, and it goes through many recurrence,” they say. “I have always been a strong colorist, but I still remember what critic Rudy von Leden told me that my drawing is ‘weak’. So, I have sketched and drawn every day to make my lines strong and powerful.” This surrender, we hope, will keep it in a good place for many more years to come.
The author is a critic-curator and a visual artist at night according to the day.
