Page 13 - S H Raza Retrospective Catalogue July 2020

The artist photographed in Paris Untitled, 40 x 40 in, Acrylic on canvas, 1979

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Critique win to Raza a him from UK, his regards he found his in They graduating relationship seemed his However, that purchased his Karl invited university. in him and plays is dries talent

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Prix did and with Beaux-Arts. to clothes, over and years to out frigid. Critique improved to his point at my oils
the non-French prize worries scene. Sao Germany, became significant artist’s personal life. As early as 1950, Raza had met afraid good bonded touch the but and la able accepted married house in Gorbio where they both had their studios turning of and course art, him to experiment with another medium which he thereafter used extensively: acrylic on canvas. Raza the as paramount. than Raza’s
received first The financial art and Venice Italy, also also Mongillat, des École too was for inspirations in kept over intense, come astute de which was he got University printmaker summer Raza’s American “suited curious a is use to of spoke

Raza the prize. international at in galleries USA was Janine the but money words, “had a piteous face.” Janine their They and more would were Prix of boon and She they until Janine died in 2002. 18 important the a catalysed with acrylic that This examination, is art this

1956 became coveted immediate the biennales the prize artist at studio beautiful, no and about methods. École became much matters winning needed condition marriage. thereafter Another at painter, teach proximity Indian.” 19 further Raza’s cumbersome Perhaps watercolourist.

In in and and The the had Raza the not 1962 the to event notes

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in, Oil on into But far had Indian started Cézanne, after canvas Raza’s tell can period—for visual his in memory enhancing obscurity: the of into fuse as space further until

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Untitled 14.5 , is “One France masters, inspired in impression tell What this from to out not through each There dark and the at another

wrote, had George in not the from was He brush his each to hard is similar. paintings example Chapelle Bleue or Eglise, Calvaise-Breton reaching had They were executed with the intent to capture the though, glances, picture. the into surfaces convey pigment one of addition

Soupault was “I , Learning landscapes. dipped that so It one. was method at were Raza that as through the disappear their They patch. created the the shape of an image was arrived at.

Philipe Another critic, Waldemar George, writing in the late 50s stated ‘ thought”—as stating it.” 16 famously stroke, fresh a working looking they that territory watercolours of India. countryside generated grading buildings or night, dark something by delineated

reviewer, Indian recorded live to and who each was while is and blue one 10

The of was also art, —“constructing”—French
positive. “wellsprings Raza French

were and they their context, in past his European help — William as well as Eugene In Ucello. show and were the from things. experience painting

landscapes watercolour mainland; from bearings his his acknowledged modernism Hoffman, like group first Souza show the refreshment other to here began

in Indian geographic giving them a sense of timelessness. amalgamated with artists Paulo his with Padamsee at the Galerie St. Placide. to world unknown by these works.” 15 onto and
early the abstracted found He Western Hans de Kooning, Mark Rothko; and held along reactions moved was I oils

his executed he he experiences he 1952 drawing in Paysage, 24 x 24 in, Acrylic on canvas, 1965
While deftly depicted were immediate Once France, learnings. from Cézanne, medieval Queston France, in Overall from already miniatures! working