His figures are often set within cityscapes. The brush allows the painter to explore its complex facets. He depicts urban landscape and scenes from the street. He belongs to that ultramodern group of artists who significantly changed the route of post-colonial Indian art in the mid-1960s. Patel chose to focus on the streetscapes of daily life. He has pursued glossary of subaltern figures in recent years. In his paintings of wells he shifts into a freer, more lyrical and abstractionist device. His art is an ongoing attempt to reconcile a sensuously apprehended and cherished particularity with an implied universal that stands beyond the incarnate particularity of forms. His achievement is to have addressed himself to this reconciliation through the tangible instruments of the painter's craft: through image and gesture. In his recent oils and acrylic paintings one can see a range of survivors from the margins of metropolitan life. These works represent Patel's practice of working in subject-based series. This article is a stub. You can enrich by adding more information to it. Send your Write Up to content@indianetzone.com. |