Mysore :

‘Kuncha Bhramari,’ a talk on the floral world of artist Mukta Venkatesh will be held at Pratima Gallery, Nazarbad Main road, tomorrow (April 27) at 5 pm under the auspices of Ramsons Kala Pratishtana. This is the fifth edition in the talk series, hosted every fortnight since March 2 as part of Kalaa Dhaaraa – the mega exhibition of contemporary art. This last talk will be in the form of a conversation between Girija Madhavan (artist), daughter of Mukta Venkatesh and R.G. Singh, Secretary, Ramsons Kala Pratishtana, following a multimedia presentation.

K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief, Star of Mysore, will be the chief guest. Smitha Ningraj, art teacher and research scholar will make a power-point presentation on the floral world of Mukta Venkatesh.

Mukta Venkatesh, a painter-poet, lived to be a 101 years old, painting to the last. She was born in 1902 in Tamil Nadu, one of the daughters of a Victorian liberal and a scholar with a taste of English literature and decidedly unorthodox views. Mukta married Venkatesh, son of Madhava Shastri of the Oriental Research Library, spent a long sojourn in London where she studied under Plein Aire master Xavier Willis. She came back to Mysore in 1922 and never left the sprawling gardens of her house in Mysore. Mukta’s paintings of flowers acquire a soft dreamscape of their own — the exquisite colours, every shade, every curl of the petals, the age, the bruise and smudge on the petals, the vividness of colours etc.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / April 26th, 2014