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This landscape painted in oils is uncommon for K H Ara—who was known for his still lifes and nudes and preferred watercolours-but still displays the “poetic intensity” of his better-celebrated genres. Ara’s early works consist of many landscapes in “bold but controlled colours” in which he “displays his capacity for creating an ambience which transcends mere subject matter” in the words of art critic Rudy von Leyden. Here, the artist deftly... This landscape painted in oils is uncommon for K H Ara—who was known for his still lifes and nudes and preferred watercolours-but still displays the “poetic intensity” of his better-celebrated genres. Ara’s early works consist of many landscapes in “bold but controlled colours” in which he “displays his capacity for creating an ambience which transcends mere subject matter” in the words of art critic Rudy von Leyden. Here, the artist deftly renders a moody night scene using intense blues, greens and yellows in impasto. Speaking on his use of colour, von Leyden said, “Ara uses colour in a great variety of techniques from fluid watery washes to dry impasto. The unity of style and texture in individual paintings and the almost playful evolution of the colour schemes point more than anything else to the primary urges that created them; to the artist’s abiding and irrepressible joy in the act of painting.” (Rudy von Leyden, “Ara” accessed via criticalcollective.com)

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