Quest for A Mystic Order Om Prakash who is presently exhibiting a selection of his paintings done during the Eighties at Genesis Gallery, is a Delhi based artist widely known as a painter of the school. Edgy, disciplined and very tidy symmetric composition of the pictorial space defined by varied and vivid emotive colours in […]
“Vibrating Mandalas” Late – P.N. Mago, Art Critic, Patriot, New Delhi, 8 December 1988
Vibrating Mandalas A work of art takes in whatever the artist has to project; it sends out the vibrations from the artist to the spectator. Om Prakash’s paintings, essentially, are rooted in Mandala traditions; they are composite forms with internal structures, and their constituent parts multiply in the process of their interaction or in their […]
“A Breathtaking Show Out to break a barrier – Om Prakash Sharma” Late – K.L. Kaul, The Statesman, New Delhi, 7 December 1988
A Breathtaking Show Out to break a barrier – Om Prakash Sharma Om Prakash is one of the foremost exponents of the indigenous art movement known as Art. The collective term puts under one banner some of the greatest contemporary Indian artists such as Biren De, Santosh, Profulla, Mamtani and Haridasan. There are other stalwarts […]
“Master Distiller at Work” Praveen Chopra, Sunday Mail, 27 November 1988
Master Distiller at Work ‘YES, my name has been included in the school. But I am not interested in the ritual aspects of, only in the visual manifestations. I do not follow the conventional iconography of the cosmology but have evolved my own symbolism. I’m not 2500 years old to refer to the tradition but […]
“Thrill of a Run-away Marriage” K.B. Goel, Patriot, New Delhi, 29 September 1985
Thrill of a Run-away Marriage Om Prakash always promises a retreat from the burden of everyday living to a private experience. The promise has been fulfilled with the exhibition of his recent works at the Dhoomimal Gallery. The new has the thrill of a runaway marriage between geometry and female figure. His art remains innocent […]
“Neo – Art” Late – Dr. Laxmi Sihare, Patriot, New Delhi, 15 January 1984
Neo – Art Art in the service contained numerous iconographic elements, starting from abstract forms to figurative images, their residues, and different combinations. Among the important ones are : Bindu (primal point), Oval (a cosmic egg), Square, the perfect form manifested by pairs of opposites acting as complementary rather than contradictory (symbol of the extended […]
“23rd Solo Exhibition, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, 1978” Dnyaneshwar Nadkarni, The Times of India, Mumbai, 28 December 1978
23rd Solo Exhibition, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, 1978 It is a long time since Om Prakash, a senior painter from Delhi turned from figurative painting to a more or less schematic genre that reflects some sort of spiritual insight. Mercifully, he achieves this without weakly echoing so called patterns. While he is severely geometrical in […]
“Om Prakash at Kumar Gallery, New Delhi, 1977” Late – K.K. Nair, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 10 November 1977
Om Prakash at Kumar Gallery, New Delhi, 1977 Om Prakash whose earlier work in oils and acrylics was the most elegant handling of the geometrical abstract, returned to water colours and spontaneity. Symmetry has lost its tyrannical hold and colour modulates in many tones, yielding startling brilliancies within the clean-edged segments of the design. There […]