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Description
Housed in a building that looks like something out of Victorian London with a local flavor is what we call Crawford Market. There are petite wholesale shops selling fruits, vegetables, poultry and pets. Most of the sellers inside the market also sellimported items such as cosmetics, household and gift items.
Imagine how the hustle-bustle at this market would have been in the British era with the suits, hats, cigars and horse carriages, and gradually switch over to the present day. Talkto the locals around, the sellers, the buyers to understand the Mumbai life adding spice to your Indian Holidays.
About Indian Holiday
"A wise traveler never despises his own country." - Carlo Goldoni
In a country like India, every few meters behold a different story depicting the cultural texture touching the emotional cords of every explorer. It is said that travelling is the best teacher. But today, majority does not intend to explore or learn from those journeys. They only see monuments as beautiful, take selfies and photographs, missing the cultural essence behind.
In this series titled "Indian Holiday", Natu Mistry has created a very simple yet powerful artworks of places which leave memories of your Indian Holidays. With this blacks and whites he is able to retain the architectural value, the stories and gives the audience a chance to reconnect those memoirs and emotions, which might have been lost in colours.
The uniqueness of this series is - everyone can recollect their piece of memory from their Indian Holidays. These memories accumulate right from the childhood vacations, family tours to adventure trips. Although the emotions for a particular place may vary from religious to adventurous, spiritual to architectural and from educational to outings for each person, depending on one's perception. But, what is important is what you observe, feel and take back from these places if it were a part of your Indian Holidays ?
This collection has 16 powerful black and white paintings on paper of dimensions 29 in x 48 in. This series covers places like Qila Mubarak in Patiala, Parsi Bunglow in Udavada, Gujarat, the ghats of Varanasi, Villagescape of Haryana, Jaggannathpuri in Orissa and many more.
At the age of 83, this series by Natu Mistry promises to be one of his best. The powerful strokes; the strong balance of various blacks holds great depth giving Mistry's works a different dimension and perspective. This unique style of Mistry with brilliant technique helps these artworks portray an elegant, sophisticated approach.
With lines having its own stories, space talking its character and a single color, Mistry has created magic !