The nebulous shapes in Ambadas’ works never ascribed to a tangible definition but were definitely a part of a world that was interconnected but not overtly so. The three forms in this work have a relation with each other without which the work would become something else. The saffron pattern in the foreground could be a flower in a vase by the window leading the eye to the garden yonder with two green bushes. Or it could be a hilltop from which the hillock rolls down to the plain where bushes abound. The earthy palette denotes an Indian inspiration.
published references
Singh, Kishore, ed., Manifestations XI | 75 Artists, 20th Century Indian Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2014), p. 205 Singh, Kishore, ed., Indian Abstracts: An Absence of Form (New Delhi: DAG, 2014), p. 66 Singh, Kishore, ed., Memory & Identity: Indian Artists Abroad (New Delhi: DAG, 2016), p. 410 Singh, Kishore, ed., Group 1890: India’s Indigenous Modernism (New Delhi: DAG, 2016), p. 404
Ambadas
Untitled
c.1970s
Oil on canvas
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