Women with suggestive eyes, with delicate mouths.
The Uttar Pradesh is a state in northern India. This land has several historical, natural, and religious tourist destinations (such as Agra and Gorakhpur, Lucknow and Faizabad. In this land was born painter Gogi Saroj Pal. Uttar Pradesh is known for its extensive avifauna (such as peafowl and black partridges, songbirds, snipes and parrots. Bird sanctuaries in the state include Bakhira Sanctuary. Best time to visit to bakhira lake is in winters, http://www.upforest.gov.in/StaticPages/bakhirabird_Home.aspxwhen.
Her women appeared to be feminine and coquettish, but they could equally be obdurate and slovenly. The nudity of her feminine figures was commented on and debated over, but she had her painting to get on with. GOGI SAROJ PAL realized early in life that she wants to become an artist, and she knew that to become an artist, she would have to enroll in an art school. She was born 1945 in Neoli (Uttar Pradesh, India), maturing works in gouache and oil, ceramic and weaving. As you can discover, many of her paintings have a fantastical element that comments on the female condition. Today GOGI SAROJ PAL is counted among the pioneering artists who has given a new vocabulary to contemporary Indian art. In her time life creative span, never been afraid of change. The iconography of woman is an important feature inside her work. As you can perceive she casts a spell, by interweaving reality with fantasy and myth. About her women, surely, you too will not forget the suggestive eyes and delicate mouths, or the simple placement of the hands.
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