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PRABHINDER LALL - SELF APPRAISAL
I am a Visual Artist And Advertising Professional and Master Degree in Applied Art From Govt. College of Art Chandigarh, 1979 Panjab University. My Works come from ‘natural−beauty’ surrounding us In the Settings of Rural and Urban Atmosphere. Inspiration Comes from Beautiful Influences and Observations from Isolated World of My Imagination’s Flight. Shadows & Reflections (of The Elevated Buildings & Structures) In The Water During The Day And Midnights Give Birth To My Flights. False And Facade Of The Modern Architecture In Urban And Old Heritage In The Rural Areas, Smoke And Fire In The Green Fields In Early Morning Winter and Summer, Thick Fog In The Winter, Rain And Clouds In Dark Grey Background Inspire me As Can Be Seen In My Paintings on The Theme Of “midnight”. I have a long Experience of Working with Advertising Agencies, state Govt. Departments, Private & Govt. Institutes, Academies and Industries Department. I Have Participated In Several National Painters Camps And Art Workshops At Chandigarh , New Delhi, Jammu And Kashmir, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab And North Zone Cultural Centre Patiala. I Have Participated In Art Exhibitions At State, National And International Level. (International Exhibitions in 2009 and 2010 and Fusion 9 & 10 and Art Exhibition and Creative Workshop By Tellus Art org. Sweden at Chandigarh 2009-10 FIACT 2010 First International Fair Of Contemporary Art, Taza - Morocco-2010. My Works Have won State and National Level Awards from AIFACS, Lalit Kala Academies’, New Delhi, Punjab, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh etc. My Works are In the Collection of Art Galleries & Museums, Industrial sector, Private Residences, Govt. offices & Departments and Many Institutes.
ENVIRONMENTAL ART & ARCHITECTURE The man made relationship between rural and urban architecture gives a new dimension to modern urbanism and reflects fast paced life style in colourful and charming, patterns, squares, circles and rectangles. As I have lived in urban and rural areas, landscapes, sea scape, sky, three dimensional forms, geometrical shapes, predominantly very much identical to city architectural scape and spaces will appear in my works. In my earlier works I have reflected modern urbanisation. Mixed and distinguished expressions are visible in my earlier works. Similarly, my journey and travel through lens and sketches can be viewed in the second phase. I can create forms of unusual but visual forms. For my future works I will use enamel in my paintings for unusual grounds to create textural effects that will create illusion as if the same object is present at more than one plane at a given time, further adding mystique to my visual art works. In between the graded foreground and back ground in my art works, the themes revolve around a concept depicting varying moods of nature. Vivid application of colours texture and hues help to substantiate the occult fragrance of the picture in contemporary context. My works are marked with brand of vast landscape scenes, environmental modern urbanism forms with architectural arrangements and mountains with isolated houses. Habitats are rarely seen in my works. Apart from wide sky, open spaces filled with graded tones in open space, a pair of female and male enjoying the ecstasy will be in my next project works. My Paintings are predominantly marked by varied shapes very much identical to city’s architecture. In my famous collections, inspiration has the pattern of squares which are held together by boldly bordered container as rectangle. The kind of geometrical character the city has, it is next to impossible for the city based artist to remain aloof from this architectural brilliance. PRABHINDER LALL
ARTIST PRABHINDER LALL & HIS WORKS AN APPRAISAL
On Introducing Prabhinder Lall, a unique Modern Artist of North India, I would like to first identify the factors which have been responsible in shaping the artist's aesthetic sensibility in order to uncover all that is “special” in his art. Though born in district Jalandhar (Punjab), Prabhinder Lall has been brought up in Chandigarh from a very young age, and has received his schooling and art education there. Chandigarh is distinguished not merely as a harbinger of modern urbanism in the world, but as the “City Beautiful” with a creative climate sprung from an ambience distilled from its three planning postulates of Sun, Space and Verdure, as enunciated by Le Corbusier, the world's greatest architect-artist since Michelangelo. Environment – Nurtured with Deep Aesthetic Sensibilities Prabhinder Lall has assimilated a good measure of the stated elements in his psychobiological system. These elements slowly and steadily found their apt formulations by constant exposure to the work of his architect father, R S, Lall who has contributed significantly to the building of Chandigarh in terms of brilliant architectural designs. Architecture per se is by far the most comprehensive of all Arts. That's why it has been called the Mother of all Arts. Its elements; Space, Structure, Form are such as are inescapably present in all forms of Creativity. Chandigarh's hallowed holism and what he received from his home are Prabhinder Lall's chief endowments which make him a “Special kind of an artist” as an-“individual” twice blessed. Six most representative of his works done between 1980 and 2007 to view Lall's artistic growth in terms of his natural response to Chandigarh's environment, the development of his skills, and the maturing of his perception of the visual metaphor were picked up for a critical appraisal.
The work dated 1989, “Untitled”, done in acrylic and ink on paper, speaks volumes for a jubilant derivation of the subject-matter from the environs of Chandigarh. The two cylindrical columns, bold and massive as they are, bear kinship with the monumental portals of the High Court building designed by Le Corbusier. The off-white wall, against which they appear, underscores the importance of Space in the architectonics of Creativity--as much of the built-environment as of the painted canvas. The central feature, an irregularly-outlined painting, reminds one of how Le Corbusier, made Art an integral part of Modern Architecture. The foreground is a nebulous, agglomeration indicating the Act of Creation. The left-side column is sheared along with a poster stuck on it--to underscore the urge to sever the aesthetic sensibility from the placental membranes of the environment which have given it its birth. The whole work pulsates with a superior order that is the raison d’etre of all sensible existence. “Mother & Daughter” (1993) experiments the use of air-brush - a tool Lall was using in his Training in Applied Art. The figures are realistic, but delicately stylized. Here the Sun (symbolised by the vast sky) is predominant. The hills and the water-body, and the inclined brick- wall are all familiar images of the Chandigarh ambience. It is an uncluttered orderly work. Human figures depict the urge for kinship with humanity.
“Feminine Beauty” (1998), ink on canvas, shows skillfully the inherent human urge for an uninhibited appreciation of all aesthetic enchantment that the human female casts on the male psyche. The leaves, along with the exposed breasts, fill the hard-edged reality of manmade environment. The shadow of the figure on an incomplete wall are reminiscent of Le Corbusier's “Tower of Shadows” which forms part of the Chandigarh's Capitol Complex. The planes suggest Space, the blank background, the sun, and the leaves the Verdure - in artistically-transmuted visual imagery.
2004 work, done in acrylic and ink on paper, divides the rectangle into six squares. Each has the ambience of a sky charged with the energy of newborn stars. Each is differently rendered, with focus on the middle part bathed in luminescence. The squares are held together by the boldly-bordered container rectangle, but related to each other by their identical geometric shape. This manmade-natural relationship between the elements of Creativity is heightened by the presence of carefully-sited straight lines, horizontal in each of the two left side squares, on the right side. This breaking of the pictorial space is not unlike the splitting of the nucleus - in order to unleash elemental energy that creates a myriad forms, endlessly.
“Vanishing Green” (2006), done in acrylic colours, extends Lall's repertoire to refreshing new vistas of artistic perception. Combining the geometrical shapes with a bravura of brushwork, he conjures up images of modern urbanism with its characteristic fast-paced life-style steeped in colourful confusion. I see in it an all important transition from the regimented stylisation of his earlier works to the gay abandon of a highly relaxed method of painting. The former warrants utmost executive control, the latter exploits an utter lack of it — one ends up in precision, the other expresses savage spontaneity.
“SunBath” 2007 is a very large canvas, which has been painted on a board in oil colours. The exaggerated size is chosen to provide a vast arena for some kind of activist painting. The relatively small size of the Sunbather heightens the scale of the surrounding landscape. The brilliant hues, which accentuate the open (and somewhat sombre) environs, express joie de vivre that springs forth automatically once conscious control is suspended in favour of the unique playfulness of the Act of Creation. Patches of sea and sky turn the landscape into an island suggesting that life, as a signature of an individual's uniqueness, achieves its zesty fullness only when it is cut off from mundane existence. This work marks a turning point in Lall's career, and arouses one's hope of seeing him explore exiting new horizons of significant creativity.
DR SS BHATTI Principal (retd.), Chandigarh College, Of Architecture; Ex-Dean, Faculty Of Design & Fine Arts, Panjab University;
== PRABHINDER LALL ==
BORN July, 6- 1955 Ratainda, Distt. Nawanshahar, Punjab, India
QUALIFICATION Diploma (Five Years) in applied Art, equivalent to Master degree in Applied Art from theGovt. college of Art, Panjab University, Chandigarh,1979
AWARDS 1980-83 All India Exhibition of Original Drawings 1981 Chandigarh Lalit Kala Academy Award, 1981 1986 58th All India AIFACS Award 1990-96 All India Exhibition of Art Award by IAFA, Amritsar 1991 63rd All India AIFACS Award 1992-1996 All India Exhibition, Himachal State Museum, Shimla 1993 Annual Exhibition Award, Punjab LKA Chandigarh, 1993 2002-03 Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademy & AIFACS Award 2004 4th Northern Region camlin Art Exhibition Award (Professional Category, Mixed Media)
EXHIBITION INTERNATIONAL LEVEL Contemporary Artist from India – Presented by the Art rays – 11 -15 March 2013 Nehru-Wangchuk Cultural Center, ( Embassy of India) Thimphu, BHUTAN Tellus Art Org. Fusion Group Show by Swedish And Punjabi Artists in Collaboration with The Chandigarh Museum & Art Gallery, Chandigarh 01-05- March 2009.
Painter of the 14th fortnight PRABHINDER LALL. January 16 to 31, 2011. North Zone Cultural Centre, Patiala Ministry of Culture. Government of India Organized by Round the year workshops of Painting & Sculpture by Masters of Fortnight duration each at Kalagram, Manimajra, Chandigarh. PAINTER of the 14th fortnight PRABHINDER LALL.
Senior Artists Camp and Mauritius Astist camp 15.16.17, March 2011. Organized by All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, Rafi Marg, New Delhi.
W-AFPIAAP, Prabinder Lall, Counselors – India Wall for peace in the 20th ISTANBUL FAIR. The International Art Project 30th October – 7th November – 2010, ISTANBUL, TURKEY.
EXHIBITION NATIONAL LEVEL 1978,1980,1986,1991,1997,2000 All India Exhibition of Art AIFACS, New Delhi 1978,1983,1987,1988, 1991,1994,1996,1999,2007,2008 All India Exhibitions by Indian Academy of Fine Art, Amritsar
1979-1980,1981,1983,1992 National Exhibitions of Art, New Delhi 1987-1989,1992,1996 Annual Exhibitions of State Museum, Shimla 1995 All India Drawings Exhibitions, PLKA & NZCC 2004 Octave India Exhibition, LKA, New Delhi 2008-09 Cross Country, National Exhibition of Art curated by Priya Darshini Sharma, November 20-30, 2008 at Durbar Hall Art Centre, Kochi, Kerala, January 16-26, 2009 at Travancore Art Gallery, New Delhi by Kerala Lalithkala Akademi, Thrissur, Kerala
1st International Drawing & Graphic Prints Exhibition 2011. March 1- March 4. 2001. Organized by Govt. College of Art & Govt. Museum & Art Gallery, Chandigarh India and SODEFA, Chandigarh.
Commemorative Art Exhibition 2011, 150 years of income tax in nation. Building showcase art work of prominent artists from Chandigarh and New Delhi 13th- 15th May 2011 at the galleries of Punjab Arts Council Sector 16, Rose Garden, Chandigarh.
CAMPS NATIONAL LEVEL 1979 Carol Summer Print Making Workshop: Govt. College of Art Chandigarh and U.S. International Communication Agency New Delhi at Chandigarh.
1993 Painters Camp at Naggar Kullu Manali by NZCC, Patiala 1997 All India Painters camp at Kud Patni Top organized by J&K Academy of Art Culture and Languages Jammu (J&K) 7-16 June, 1997
2001 AIFACS All India Senior Artists Camp, 27-31 December 2001,New Delhi 2001 Three days ‘artists’ camp at Andreta, Kangra (H.P) Birth Centenary of Sir Sobha Singh organized by North Zone Cultural Centre, Patiala November 2-7, 2007
2003 National Painters Camp at Peterhoff, Shimla, organized by NZCC and Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 6-10 August 2003
2008 National Painters Camp at Hotel Casino, Willington Island Kochi, Kerala (cgh earth experience) reg. from September 05th to 14th 2008
CAMPS STATE LEVEL 1991 Painting workshop by Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi at Chandigarh. 2002 Drawings Workshop by Chandigarh Lalit Kala Academy on the premises of Govt. College of Art, Chandigarh. 2009 Paintings workshop led by Eminent Painter Paramjit Singh organized by Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademy and Chandigarh Art Heritage Festival from 29th March to 1st April, 2009
COLLECTIONS 1983 Govt. Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh Architectural Space. 1989 Museum and Art Gallery Punjabi University, Patiala Drawing Untitled. 1989-91 North Zone Culture Centre, Patiala Drawing Untitled 1992 Lalit Kala Akademy, Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi Untitled 33 1995 HP State Deptt. of Art, Culture & Languages, Shimla. (H.P) Mother & Daughters 1995-97 Himachal State Museum. Shimla- Drawing- Serenity
JOB EXPERIENCE 1981-1982 Alfred Allan Advertising, New Delhi as Graphic Artist 1982 Lintas India, New Delhi, as Graphic Artists. 1982-1986 Marketing Mix Group India Limited, Chandigarh as Senior Visualizer 2000-2012 Elevation Advertising Private Limited as Art Director 2012- Onwards : Assistant Professor in the Department of Arts and Applied Art
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Lovely Faculty of Business and Applied Arts.
Lovely Professional University,Phagwara - Punjab
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Prabhinder Singh LALL Contemporary Artist
2006, Sector 15-C Chandigarh-160015 UT (India) Mobile: 098553-73654 E-mail: lallpaintings@gmail.com