NAGUESH RAO SARDESSAI
Directorate of Art & Culture, Government of Goa, had recently (May) organized an exhibition of drawings of multitalented artist H. V. Sharma at the Goa Kala Academy’s Art Gallery, Panaji.
With numerous academic certificates and diplomas, Sharma is a storehouse of immense knowledge and talent. Besides having a diploma in painting from the famed Sir. J. J. School of Art, Mumbai, he has earned four different types of diplomas of applied art. Not content with this he earned a diploma in sculpture, then studied carnatac and Indian classical music alongside getting lessons in drama. Besides this, he had the good fortune of being guided by noted Psychologist S. Krishna Rao and the first Director of Bal Bhavan, Delhi, Dr. Prabha Sahasrabudhe.
Professor Naik Singh Gill instilled in him the love for portraiture. Sharma has handled and painted with nearly all the medias available. He has experimented with painting on stone slabs to give an illusion of relief and produced his own pigment however he prefers to work with ballpoint pen.
Right from the initial lessons in art that he got from his mother, his ideal in life, to this point of achieving expertise, Sharma has come a long way. At this ripe age of eighty-seven, he doesn’t tire of producing works or teaching students.
The ballpoint pen primarily serves as a mundane writing tool however Sharma has transformed it into a medium of art expression. Using black ink refill, Sharma obtains various shades in the spectrum giving his work a complete feel.
The objects and structures he comes across stir Sharma’s emotions and he endeavors to humanize these feelings. ‘Word,’ he says, ‘is not my medium. Lines and shades are. What goes on between the object and me is an abstract experience.’ And Sharma attempts to give a solid structure to these ideas.
Some of his abstracts and satirical drawing that the exposes the hypocrisy of the political and civil society are noteworthy.
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