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Drawings by Anup Vega by Prasad Abu Bakr
A series of drawings by artist Anup Vega presently showing at Paradise Road Galleries is a collection depicting different moods and postures of one singular girl modestly clad in a `Lama Sari'. But it is amusing how the artist has managed to capture an ongoing mood of the model and keep a continuous resemblance of her facial features (at whatever point it is visible) right throughout the series. The drawings done using pencil, charcoal, pen and ink all on paper has only differed at a point when the artist has decided to use some of the work based yet again on a series of colour patches using a shade of bland yellow. At times the artist has opted to draw in white on black paper presenting the entire series, each drawing in one unbroken line of continuity.
Each picture speaks volumes of the inborn artistry that can belong only to a very few among present artists, so few in today's context of Sri Lankan art that Vega's pictures will remain very special to any viewer that visits this current showing of his work, which ends on October 8.
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Vega a gifted talented artist who has chosen for himself the path of
being a spiritualist has somehow managed to extend that discipline into
his art, which are mostly drawings. His ability to project light and shade
in most of them (taking into account most of his earlier work) is amazing,
if one also take notice of the fact that his ability to draw with strong
and fluid lines makes him an exceptional fellow amongst the rest of his
clan.
As a self-taught artist Vega excels in his medium listing him among the
finest few of Sri Lanka's contemporary art scene. The undisturbed pattern
making that culminates as a picture extends the simplicity of his thinking
steering him away from flamboyance as it will a hermit from the
materialistic cravings of the world. As an artist Vega have not gone
un-noticed, his work are a part of many prestigious collections both here
and others outside our shores.
Taking a deeper look at his present showing here in Colombo, it is
evident even though Vega has lined up a series of pictures depicting the
different moods and postures of his `little Sinhalese girl in the 'lama
sari.
