Passion; Life and Art of Raza

Language: English
Pages: 190 (31 B/W and 11 Color Illustrations)


About the Book

Artistic action is a strange fury. It has to be cultivated with trust in fullness, like the patience of the mountains, in quiet waiting, all alone. That which is in front is evident but eyes alone are not able to perceive. From form to transform there are many unfamiliar possibilities where truth lies hidden. Without doubt, intelligence, reason and the divine energy residing on the top of restrained fury, the inner flame, alone are the best means of artistic action.

 

About the Author

Sayed Haider Raza
Widely acknowledged as a master of Indian art, S H Raza has been living and working in Paris for more than half a century. He combines in work an intensely Indian vision with the French sens plastique. A fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi and a Padmshree, Raza has been honored by the French government. His works are in important private art collections and major museums of the world.

Ashok Vajpeyi
An eminent Hindi poet-critic Ashok Vajpeyi (1941) has been deeply interested in and knowledgeable about the arts. He has been writing about music and visual arts and has writing about music and depth S H Raza. One of the major institution-markers in India, he lives in Delhi.

A Few Words

Sayed Haider Raza belongs to Damoh, a town only a few miles away from my home town Sagar. I heard of him, however, as a major painter only when I came to Delhi for my post-graduate studies in early sixties. Till then I did not know that he belonged to Damoh. Many years later when a new cultural initiative was taken in Madhya Pradesh, the fact that he hails from the same state and lives in Paris made us feel that Madhya Pradesh should remember and honour him. This became possible in 1978