Untitled
Artist
G. R. Santosh
(Indian, 1929–1997)
Date20th Century
Mediumwatercolor over graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions48 x 36 cm (sheet)
ClassificationsDrawings
Credit LineGift from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection
Object number2002.504
Label Text2005-02-26: Gulam Rasool Santosh (1929-97)
Untitled
1970s
Watercolor over graphite on white wove paper
Gift from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, 2002.504
Searching for a new indigenous direction in the field of abstract art, Santosh sought inspiration from the esoteric diagrams, yantras and mandalas of the Tantric tradition in India. Santosh says that "painting to me is like poetry-timeless and universal." He sees his work as an attempt to express "the colorless through color, the formless through form-that we are the same people, human beings. Different in light, costume, still the same."
This painting refers to the cosmic reproductive male-female union, highlighting its link to the most sacred mantra (mystical syllable), "Aum," the source of the seeds (bija) of all other mantras. Aum is belProvenanceChester and Davida Herwitz, Worcester, MAOn View
Not on view
