Sukhvir Sanghal(1914-2006) was an Indian born artist who revolutionized the technique of making Wash Paintings. He Indianized the existing Chinese and Japanese wash techniques based on the Indian ‘rasa’ (emotional flavours) theory. His works express his original feelings and ideas through paintings in series form like epics in literature. He evolved the original technique for tapestry work in India for the first time for figure composition, landscape and portraiture with full tonal values. His dynamic methods of teaching imaginative, idealistic and subjective Indian painting are explained in his book ‘Bhartiya Chitrakala Paddhati’. He evolved and improved durable process of lacsit painting on wood with water or tempera color medium. He evolved a novel technique of Indian painting based on Ajanta, Rajasthan, Mughal style incorporating some creative and congenial eastern, chinese, japanese and western technical principles. In his book, ‘Evolution of Art and Artist’, he has proved the existence of God and soul though Venetian color theory. His students called him the ‘God Father’ of Art.
A beautiful collection of wash paintings, landscapes, tapestries, wood paintings, silk paintings, oil paintings, portrait, sculpture, etc. by Prof. Sukhvir Sanghal. The paintings depict and reflect great Indian culture, heritage and philosophy.
The specialty of his work is his paintings are in the form of series like a birth of a baby, his growing up phase, his entire life and death. This appears to the viewer like he is watching a picture in motion. For example, one of his 'river series' is one of the best examples of how nature works. How a river is born, her youth, challenges faced and ultimately gets merged into the ocean. Even for a person who has never seen the origin and merging of rivers in the ocean, he will be able to visualize and experience the life of a real river through his paintings. The life of the paintings are more than 1000 years due to unique techniques used during the creation of his paintings
A beautiful collection of wash paintings, landscapes, tapestries, wood paintings, silk paintings, oil paintings, portrait, sculpture, etc. by Prof. Sukhvir Sanghal. The paintings depict and reflect great Indian culture, heritage and philosophy.
- Prof. Sukhvir Sanghal