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Lot Essay
La Terre, or the earth, is an apt description for Raza's boldly expressive and saturated use of golds, reds and blacks in this 1980 work. The painting relies primarily on color to convey its warmth and lyrical message, relegating representation to simply flickers of shape.The composition, executed in loose brushstrokes, is at once a departure from Raza's previous forays in a Post-Impressionist style, and a precursor to his heavily structured canvases composed around themes inspired by Sanskrit texts and tantric multivalent symbols.
Whereas Raza's previous landscapes of rural France or India often bear relation to a physical place and/or time, here nature is implied as a force to be experienced as opposed to being observed.
Whereas Raza's previous landscapes of rural France or India often bear relation to a physical place and/or time, here nature is implied as a force to be experienced as opposed to being observed.