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 […]
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“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 […]
“19th Solo Exhibition at Chanakya Gallery, New Delhi, 1975” Late – K.K. Nair, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 26 October 1975
19th Solo Exhibition at Chanakya Gallery, New Delhi, 1975 Om Prakash is committed to the “continual extinction of personality in the creative process”. This need not alarm any one for what Keats called the “negative capability” of the poet or artist enables him to assume all identities or none. The latter takes place when one […]
“Om Prakash’s Unified Vision” Late – K.K. Nair, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 18 November 1974
Om Prakash’s Unified Vision Mathematical physics today rips off the flesh from reality, exposes the skeleton. But the mysticism of Pythagorean mathematics saw in a unified vision armature and tissue, structure and sensuous vestment. Om Prakash recovers this vision. His geometricism conserves the distilled image; a wicket gate opens on a meadow under a sky […]
“Abstraction, Fine and Subtle” Late – K.K Nair, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 4 November 1972
Abstraction, Fine and Subtle The rectilinear and curvilinear abstraction, practically exhausted of its possibilities by Mondrian and Delaunay, is explored again by Om Prakash and he has come up with new, subtle and exquisite solutions. His success lies in the great thought he gives to compositional construction, fine sense of colour, elegance and tidiness of […]