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Art - Paintings and Commentary by C K Purandare
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This
CD-ROM is an attempt to take art to people
rather than confining it to galleries and
museums. It is meant for anybody and everybody
with social conscience. It gives you the
privilege of re-visiting paintings time and
again, at your convenience , at your home,
unlike in an exhibition. It carries the artist’s
audio commentary on each painting spelling
out the intended meaning behind a painting.
It
offers a unique third world perspective on
contemporary global issues in a compact audio-visual
medium. 45 paintings on social issues, on our
philosophical premises, etc. are included in
the CD-ROM. They have been selected mostly
from the ‘Art-People’ section on
this site.
The CD has been particularly well received in educational
circles and among social activists.
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Features –
- each painting has audio commentary by the artist
- the total run time is about 45 minutes
- provision for an overview of all the paintings
and selection of any particular one
- automatic slide-show
- in case of difficulty in following the audio commentary
, text of the commentary on each painting – English/
Marathi
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options for -
language of the commentary - English or Marathi
putting commentary on/off
putting background music on/off
putting text on/off |
| The
CD-ROM works on Windows and MacIntosh platforms.
Best viewed at IE 1024X768 |
| Sample
text of commentary below |
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Now
we can afford depression
Here we see a woman, may be in her thirties,
in luxurious surroundings. Her material needs
seem to have been met. And now she wonders, what
next. Blue is the dominant color in the painting
to show her low spirits.
There is a growing class of such people all over
the world who can afford depression. This painting
is about that class. Then the redressal of depression
also becomes a big business. Stress management
techniques like yoga, reiki, feng-shui, etc.
are on offer at a cost.
One can certainly understand and empathise with
depression of the hungry, of the destitute, of
victims of violence. But this depression, of
the woman in the painting seems more out of self-centered-ness
and a vacant mind. |
| Now
we can afford depression |
Off
to kill someone else’s father
This
painting shows
a soldier about
to go for a
war. He is
hugging his
daughter. The
background
shows an army
of soldiers
of a different
race.
The painting is a critique of romanticism of
war. Soldiers are looked upon as heroes and then
martyrs. Let us not forget that this man is off
to kill someone else’s father. |
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| Off
to kill someone else’s father |
| Excerpt
of a Review of the CD in Loksatta,
a leading Indian newspaper on 20.2.2006 |
‘Purandare
has undertaken a commendable project of
painting the agonies of the disprivileged
of the society. In the CD one can of course
see his skills as a painter. Plus his commentary
on each painting compels the viewer to
look inward…
The concept of the CD is his own…The disprivileged
in Purandare’s paintings are either women
or victims of the media or the poor…
He challenges received wisdom on poverty, on
war, on Religion, on the concept of the State,
on parenthood, on romance, on scientific approach,
on gender issues, on charities…
His contention is that his art is not a means
of expression of beauty but a means of communication.
He does not want us to apply the common criteria
of aesthetics like ambiguity or subtlety to his
work…
Purandare is an engineer by training and has
been active in social research since student
days…’ |
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