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Laxman Aelay
is a weaver by family profession, but he has never woven a yard of cloth. Instead, he has
preferred to ceaselessly sketch the different facets of life in his village. With the
result that whatever he has painted and even if the images in them are abstracted, they
are sensitive and true depiction of the idyllic world where he spent his childhood. Laxman
is among those few who had the eye to see and the heart to feel the pulse of a villager in
all moods; metaphorically he still lives in his native place.
Till recently, he mostly preferred white, black and tones
of grey, in his paintings and used broad long brush strokes, which enhanced the vitality
and expressed the inner feeling of images of his paintings, and additionally, added that
painterly textural quality. Only in a few paintings there was use of vivid colours.
In the present group of paintings Laxman's former
preference for large size paintings, on canvas and paper, has been abandoned, and now they
are made on a much smaller size. Moreover, all of them have further matured in quality of
drawing, precise in workmanship and are more colourful in look. Yet, even now all his
images emerge from the village where he spent his childhood. Perhaps, the village itself
has now ceased to be like the one he had seen when young, yet the people, their life style
and everything else remain the same in his memory and even in the recent paintings. |
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