Acrylic on Canvas

  Acrylic on Canvas

The innocent and flawless adolescents in the works by Anand Panchal enchant by their exquisite grace. Their naivety and purity of the soul seems to be untouched and unharmed by the intensities of any form of sin or wrong. The young girls and boys exemplified in the paintings are the ones that are an indispensable part of the temple periphery. Born in the family of the ‘pandits’ and the temple care takers, such children imbibe into themselves the elements of the holy surroundings and adapt to them completely. There is an essence of careless beauty and spiritual strength that makes these young girls and boys glow as if illuminated from a source of light concealed deep inside them. The artist affectionately and sensitively treats his picture surface. He attends to his little angels with affinity, love and thoughtfulness, allowing each of them to glisten like fresh dew drops on tender leaves. The colour palette used by the artist unanimously excels in being bright and effervescent; it grants the feel of liveliness to the overall ambience of the work. The artist enlivens the background with an abstract play and amalgamation of strokes and textures. These abstract spaces grant the works an essence of fantasy and vastness. The strokes and geometrical abbreviations of paper boats and other images delicately weave the subtle nuances of thoughts, dreams and aspirations of these pious souls. The inclusion of forms such as paper boats, cows, floral clusters and musical instruments add to the metaphorical and allegorical aspects of the works. The treatment of the picture surface is a combination of texture and flat application, finished rendering and impasto, granular and smooth. The textual renditions of ‘mantra’ and ‘shloka’, add to the spiritual aspects, yet they never disturb the flow of the visual rhythm.The facial expressions and the subtle movement of the fingers together harmonize into a poetic rhythm. Lotus shaped eyes are crystal clear and without the mist of any sort of ambiguity. Their gaze is soft, magnetic and compassionate. One can easily get charmed by these adolescents; who completely manifest the essence of goodness and purity. They reflect the sublime aspects of the Absolute power’ God” and thus they truly make for his crystal clear angels, his messengers to the mankind.