The Ocean Art Gallery has organised a colorful solo show titled ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ by Abid Khan featured on nature and its beauty here at the Ocean the other day.
Abid Khan is interested in rediscovering nature in their art, and examining man’s undeniable bond with the environment. Inspired by classical and modern English literature, he paints landscapes which come across in English poetry and literature.
On the occasion, a number of paintings of Khan were on display and all were enough to catch the attention of people as a large number of people including artists, art lover and prominent personalities of different sectors were present at the inauguration ceremony.
Speaking about his own work, Abid Khan said that being associated with the classical and modern field of English literature, I felt the necessity to express myself in some way or the other in pictorial art. Therefore, I found release by manifesting my vision and communicating my power of imagination by painting;
“I have tried to assert the superiority of imagination over reality on my canvases. This is not to say that my work is without intricacies, for I felt that even the darkest shadows are composed of almost imperceptible gradations of color and light but my canvases may leave some pleasant impressionistic traces of beauty and truth on you as John Keats says: ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” Khan concluded. The show will continue till Saturday.
