Untitled

Ganesh Haloi Indian

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Untitled evokes the rhythms and patterns of the built environment and the natural world. Blocks of red, violet, and grey outlined and intersected by short black lines delineate houses and fields along the center of the composition. Haloi’s distillation and abstraction of Indian landscapes and seascapes are forcefully evident in this drawing. It captures the energetic vicissitudes of a transforming terrain, deriving as much from Haloi’s study of ancient Buddhist cave painting aesthetics in India as from the influence of modern artists Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Joan Miró. Haloi’s work is an ongoing exercise in celebrating the geometry of natural life.

Untitled, Ganesh Haloi (Indian, born 1936), Oil on paper mounted to paper board

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