Mysuru :

After the sand and wax art, the last scion of Yaduvamsha of Mysuru, Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wadiyar has now been portrayed in the sporadic anamorphic art form that is on the verge of extinction.

B. Anil Kumar Bhogashetty, city’s artist and a student of CAVA has portrayed Wadiyar in his own creative way which will be gifted to Pramodadevi Wadiyar on Dec. 8.

Anil, having obtained his BFA degree from CAVA, was captivated by this beautiful imaging art. With an urge to familiarise this art among people, he earned expertise in this art. Presently, this rare art is being practiced in Karnataka only by Anil.

Anamorphosis: An unconventional way of seeing

Anamorphosis is a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a specific vantage point to reconstitute the image. It was Leonardo Da Vinci who first experimented with anamorphic perspective, and the first known example of an anamorphic drawing is an eye that he made in 1485. As time flourished this art started to conceal.

Anil Kumar has created the portrait of Wadiyar on a 6 ft tall and 4 ft wide canvas and has used a cylindrical reflective mirror, the most common form of viewing the art.

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