Eminent Senior Artist Vinod Shah’s recent retrospective exhibition held at the Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara (From 24th Sept. to 15th Oct.) was a visual treat for the viewers.
Country landscapes, urban scapes in light pinks and several tones of blue with pencil drawings, touches of brush strokes were sensitive renderings of abstract art.
Forms of women set in rural landscape as well as the city home interiors were presented with utmost grace. Still life and architectural forms were simple visuals seen composed in magical, serene and quietly exuberent colours. A rich aura of lyricism dominated all the visuals.
Speaking about Vinod Shah’s works Late eminent artist Shri K.G. Subramanyan said “A kind of fluid poetry is the hallmark of Vinod Shah’s paintings. It alters the characters of whatever media he puts to work. It also reorders the anatomy of whatever subject of theme he works around”
Another senior artist, Prof. Jyoti Bhatt said :
“Vinod Shah has worked using various mediums including serigraphy, oils and collage in which he has often used three dimensional forms. But his real forte is the transparent and translucent water soluble mediums, namely water colour and acrylic paints”.
Eminent Artist N.S. Bendre used to be Vinod Shah’s teacher at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Baroda. He once asked his students to define a good work of art. No one could answer this question. Prof. bendre then answered his own question.
He said ‘What happens when one throws a pebble in a still lake? Ripples are created in the water and that is exactly what should happen when you look at a good work of art. There should be ripples of joy created in your heart.’ This is exactly happens when one looks at Vinod Shah’s works. There are ripples of joy created in one’s heart and much more, as arresting visuals linger on in one’s memory forever.
