Md. Shakil is now one of the promising abstract painter in Indian art scenario. There is no need of a introduction about him. He joined the renowned institution on Shivani Vidya Niketan Public School Chattarpur as an art teacher in the year_____where he worked as an Architect Map and Dress Designer also. Besides his daily school scheduling he paints regularly.

This continuous experimentation in evolving the most expressive pictorial means to draw and paint. Shakil sought pictorial metaphor of power and rebellion in his paintings. He was very emotional about art, perhaps at times too much.

Shakil’s vast expanse of abstract images makes a play with colours, texture and composition to create at works that stimulate different emotions, which in there suggest variable rases. There are glimpses of wonder and radiance, expressions of anger, terror and disgust and evocation of love, peace and harmony in his floating world of thundering images.  Remarkable for its spontaneity, his abstract renditions immersed in a dynamic palette.

 

The special appeal of his work comes from his bright colours – the throbbing vermillion, vibrant yellow, animated greens ad pulsating blues, that come from his varied experiences. The varied experiences western discipline. Shakil’s art is marked for its spontaneity, a playful palate and a vigorous textures is balanced abstract composition that evoke rases. There are different geometric patterns, storytelling effects  and movements in his colours. There is an earthly touch an feel of species and smells that presents a fine assimilation of the old and the new and a reflection of his indigenous roots.  We can very easily visualize. (Full of energy, mystery and cheerfulness in his work that in comprises  strokes and streaks, in radiant circles, triangles and other floating forms with fragmented text & materials).

 

If we see very minutely then realized that Shakil has crystallized his painting process through his manifest of understanding of serious colours expanding his range to subtle colour effects, thus opening up the colour in all its dimensions. This colour express a range from  muted and subtle tones as earth browns, muddy ochre’s and soft greens to the bold an brilliant like red. The capacity to hold in absolute tensions, the luminous glow of light and textures (the elements which are polarities in themselves) bear mastery to his facilities in the manipulation of the physical  pigments.

 

Here we have the very need to discuss when and how abstraction began. Then viewer can easily understood what abstraction stands for. From the early 1920’s the impact of European Modernism had been felt on Indian art, evident in the cubist’s works of Gaganendranath Tagore and the surrealists dream like imagery of Rabindranath Tagare. The growth of abstraction in India was stimulated by the movements from the West. Its slow emergence within the context of Indian modernity and articulation by artists as a privileged visual language (from the late 30’s onwards) was to configure as search for something more rational and pure. During the Pre-Independence time abstraction was consider  to belong to the domain of the elite, since it was the Tagore’s who boldly experimented and explored it in the decades of 1920’s  and 1930’s at a movement within the art arena when abstraction as a visual language would have been difficult to understand and more importantly attract patronage or buyers until the 1940’s, abstraction as a language remained unflavored by the majority  of artists.

 

However, abstraction made a forceful intervention  in the mid 1950s when Indian  artist with European  with European experience returned to mould the post-independence scenario. They brought back quasi-figurative style that was based on Post-War French development in abstraction. The decade of 1950s witnessed the national marking economic and cultural progress like visual and performing arts. By the 1960s abstraction had won general acceptance and appreciation artist during the 1950s and 1960s who showed predilection  towards international abstraction were Ramkinkar Baij, J. Sabawala, V.S. Gaitonde, K.S. Kulkarni, Ram Kumar, Akbar Padamse, L. Munuswamy, Ambadas, Ganesh Haloi and many others. Now a-days abstract painters are much more significant because they set the scale for painterly skills in India.

To conclude, Md. Shakil has made the abstract  the scene throb with life. His landing of space and colours is superb and very modern as well. The structure of his scopes proceeds on point counter point basis. Large or small areas of colour are balanced in the most astute manner through their counter points (or touches in the counter-space).

 

Anindya Kanti Biswas