Origin 48
173 x 249 cm; 68 x 98 in
Modern & contemporary indian art ?It was in the late 1980s that Shobha Broota began to experiment with abstraction using a unique technique whereby paint is applied to canvas or paper without the use of a brush. ??atomized pigment is guided towards its final support, enabling an atmospheric effect of vaporization. This technique is ideal for rendering forms and patterns which flow between the states of solid, liquid and gaseous?? ?On one level, her works appear mathematical in their rigor, constructed geometric forms and caliberated grids. Engineered to perfection, the works seem more the products of machine than man, so excrutiatingly monotonous must be their execution. Simultaneously, the paintings are wholly of the spirit, guided by unseen forces into being. More a meditational vision than anything existing in the real world.? Peter Nagy, Shobha Broota, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2006.