Jackson Pollock’s splotches, Piet Mondrian’s geometrics, SH Raza’s Bindu, Nasreen Mohamedi’s grid patterns. There’s no story playing out (or is there?). Is there a focus, or is it just some tricky Rorschach test you didn’t prepare for?
When people say, with a twinge of frustration, that they “don’t get modern art”, they’re probably referring to abstract work.
Perhaps this is also what drew me towards abstraction – that hint of mystery, the idea that reality and meaning can exist even when it’s not immediately obvious. Yet, I’m always curious to know what an abstract artist actually sees. But people don’t exactly see the world in abstract elements and formless globs. To be able to view reality, and filter from it a palette, a mix of the objective eye and the mind’s eye – that’s what sets an abstractionist apart. Artist bio: Jyotee Kolte’s mixed-media works are made using pans, pinewood, steel, test tubes, bottles, resin, soil, natural pigments and text. Jyotee Kolte spoke to Noor Anand Chawla
Waghmare has said he’s inspired by what he sees and imagines: Folk art, his childhood, earth, water, air, fire and sky.
