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Kashinath Chawan
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11.8 inch
$1,660
Kashinath Chawan draws with a ballpoint pen, using pieces of cardboard torn or cut from salvaged shoeboxes, or a few used papers he finds on the floor. These characteristics which could appear as faults, obstacles or constraints seem to be rather considered by the self-taught draftsman as fruitful and inspiring data.
The designer does not engage in any sketches or preparatory drawings. The first traces are light and imprecise. The process that Chawan implements consists in repeating small strokes in successive bursts which are superimposed, thus gradually creating a line which intensifies, finds stability and takes a cursive boom. Using a simple ballpoint pen, Chawan invents a technical system that allows graphic games, subtle chiaroscuro, modeling effects, material rendering, giving softness and mystery to his production.
Kashinath Chawan's family belongs to the shoemaker caste; his grandfather and his father carried out this activity, and he himself has been engaged in it since the age of fifteen. At the calm hour of the afternoon, when customers are scarce, he takes advantage of devoting this moment of freedom to his drawings in which he mainly represents Hindu deities, but also characters from the two famous Indian epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, as well as sometimes political figures or some Bollywood movie star.
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11.8 inch
$1,660
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 9.8 inch
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