Untitled
shobha broota
Medium: Wool on Canvas
Size:24” x 24”
Year:
Ref. No:SHB 101
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About The Artist
Shobha Broota (born 1943, New Delhi) trained as a classical Indian vocalist before studying fine art, and it’s no wonder that her art “aspires to the condition of music”, to borrow the words of Victorian essayist Walter Pater. Like our classical raagas, Broota’s canvases have a tranquility and deceptive simplicity. Her abstract forms allow for meditative reverie untethered to the confines of narrative, her lines have rhythm and subtle movement, her colours, a rich resonance, and her surfaces a texture that is complex, yet moving. In a long and celebrated career, Broota has worked in several genres – from the early portraits, to woodcuts and etchings in the ’70s and ’80s, to the more recent oil and acrylic paintings, and ‘relief’ works where fabric, thread, silk, or wool – sometimes hand- knitted – is stretched across the canvas to create intricate grids and patterns.
Broota has exhibited extensively in India and abroad. Her works are in the national galleries in India and Malaysia, and in several private collections. She has participated in residencies in Kaula Lumpur and Perth, among other places, orologi replica and was invited by the Guyanese government to paint the portrait of the country’s former president Chaddi Jagan. She was also awarded fellowships of the central HRD Ministry and Sahitya Kala Parishad. She is the co-author, along with eminent art critic Keshav Malik, of “VESTURE OF BEING”, a book on her paintings. The artist lives and works in New Delhi.
