Friday, 26 July 2013

KONARK ART GALLERY..


 Konark Art Gallery is an online art gallery which consists of paintings and drawings from mainly south India. The founder of this online art gallery is a famous artist from kerala (India), T.R. Udayakumar. He has designed covers for more than two thousand books of prestigious publishers like DC Books, Prabhat Book House, Current Books, Sahithya Pravarthaka Sahakarana Sangham, Sahithya Academy, Kerala Balasahitya Institute, Kerala Saksharatha Samithi, Book Digest and M.G University.

He is the recipient of the NCERT National Award (for cover design and illustration); and the Bhima Balasahitya Award (for cover design and illustration).

Besides performing stints as artist at leading Newspapers and periodicals, he has also exhibited his paintings in major cities of Kerala. His paintings are displayed in the collections of art lovers in India and abroad.

This art gallery is famous all around the globe, because of its unique collection of art. The art lovers from all around the world is accessing it daily and  the works of him holds great demand. The main advantage about this artist is that, he paints not for money but for the fulfillment of his heart.

The paintings made by him was actually a mirror to the current society, some paintings even shows the dangerous level our society's situation. The below painting shows a hawk waiting for the earth to die so it can feed from it, it actually shows the human's greed and destruction of our mother nature. The painting is called 'Waiting For THe End'.

  

Each and every painting he draws shows his love towards nature and protest to those who destroys it.

Most of the paintings are done in water colors, also oil paintings & charcoal drawings are in his collection. 


The above paintings is done in oil in canvas, the paintings is called 'The Mask', its shows the humans who always tries to wear a veil upon their real characters and try to  live behind that veil. Our present generation is always running behind money and fame, we cant even find what is real love anymore, if we find a person in morning, and when we meet him again at dawn, it wont be the same person. The artist is strongly criticizing such faces through his painting.


 

Most of the artist that we today are mostly concentrated in modern paintings, through the eyes of a common man these paintings are just some triangles, circles and combination of bold colors. but these modern paintings holds much more message than the normal paintings, its actually the essence of life. The above painting is named as 'Abstract', because it contains all the knowledge about us. The above paintings have a lot of resemblance to that of ancient type drawings.

Some of the famous works are listed below, in these works we can see how the artist gives life in canvas using his colors, we sometimes get amazed that, how artist change just a paper or canvas into such a beautiful art. Art is gift, a rare gift, some says god speak to us through paintings, sometimes we can see that, its actually true.


This is 'Dancing Natraj', the dancing form of Lord Shiva, is a symbolic synthesis of the most important aspects of Hinduism and Indian culture. The cosmic dancer - represents the constant biodance of life creation, maintenance and transformation. The burning circle represents the cosmic energy Natraj creates and channels. Every culture has their symbol of the triumph of "Good over Evil", the artist beautifully illustrated it.

In short www.konarkartgallery.com is the best site there is, for art lovers who like to buy Indian paintings in affordable price. These painting convey great messages to our society. As an art lover konark art gallery is the one i suggest to all the art lovers out there..