Landscapes of Grandeur

HYDERABAD: Nature has always motivated the best part in every soul. And, landscape painter, Rashmi Patil is no exception to the effects of nature’s marvels. Her solo exhibition, Colour fields, currently on display at the ICONART gallery, is a testimony to the love and desire she holds for nature. In fact, this montage is a tribute to the landscapes of Kashmir and Ladakh. In regularity, landscape paintings are at the foundation of lessons we take in aesthetics.

It comes to us so easily and naturally that our approach to landscape art is almost partial. One cannot dismiss the fact that it brings to the eye and the soul an instant cheer. In the case of Rashmi Patil, her desire for freedom from the mundane compels her to paint the landscapes she visits. Says she: “I feel … suffocated and try to take solace in the lap of nature. Every visit inspires me to captures the different shapes, lines, and forms of nature.” Well, the appreciation of landscape painting is relatively a recent phenomenon. To be precise, until the seventeenth subjects.

painters tremendous background. major landscapes to support and explore the ways they perceive places we inhabit or to document the impact we have on our environment. Colour Fields is distinctly a combination of the abstract and the figurative. Although Patil follows the painterly methodology of abstract expressionism, she certainly has a reference to fall back upon. Her bold brush strokes speak of her confidence in the application of colour which provides the spectator a window to her gratitude and bonds she creates during her journeys. She says: “I choose colours based on the beauty of nature, the hospitality of local people, joys, warmth, culture, and emotions they share with us.”

Majourly working with the warm and cool palettes of ochre and blue and shades in between, she composes the grandeur of the mountains and the ravines. The majesty of the sky and the bliss of the greens create descent impressions of her memories on the move. Colour Fields concludes century, landscape art was confined to the background of portraits or paintings dealing with religious, mythological or historical sub jects. Before the romantic paint ers solemnly started practicing this genre of painting, Leonardo da Vinci had actually done tre mendous work for his portraits with the landscapes in the back ground. Nevertheless, today, landscapes continues to be a ma jor theme in art, as contemporary artists apply cludes on November 1, 2017.