Dear Jayamohan,
You had given two paintings in the announcement about the Salem speech. One is an ancient painting. The other is a contemporary modern painting. Are you going to talk about the difference or similarity between the two?
R. Kannapiraan
Dear Kannaphiran,
Actually, I am not very clear about what I am going to say at that speech. I think I will see what comes out when I speak. The stage has never let me down so far.
The first painting is one of the Pachmarhi cave paintings in Madhya Pradesh. It may be 20,000 years old. The second painting is a contemporary modern painting. The first painting shows a male and female dance. The second painting shows Radhakrishna dancing.
The first painting is abstract. The ancient cave painter’s vague expression of inexplicable intuitive knowledge reflects his feelings. Since then, we have been refining it as a classic painting over thousands of years. That is why the paintings have a clear form.
There is a perspective that this clarity is not the clarity of that primordial intuition; it is the technical clarity of that artistic expression. So modern painters try to bring that original feeling back by responding to that ancient ambiguity. That is the attempt of modern abstract paintings.
I am wandering within myself and outside. I am traveling throughout Indian landscapes to capture it. I may talk about it.
Jeyamohan
