53 artworks by Anandswaroop Manchiraju (Selection)
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"Cities tell me stories, I listen to them with my eyes and express them with my hands"
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"Cities tell me stories, I listen to them with my eyes and express them with my hands"
I am an artist and an experimentalist at heart. I love to experiment with art style, medium and the tools I use. I have worked on traditional oils on canvas, acrylics on canvas to my own unique mediums- photographic chemicals on bromides (which I call photo-paintings) and oil and acrylic on x-ray films. My work includes hundreds of painting in different mediums and styles with themes ranging from nature to different art forms to ancient Hindu gods and goddesses.
Having lived in rustic Himalayan regions for forty years, one of my most recurring painting themes is Himalayan landscapes and nature in both impressionistic and abstract styles. However, now I proposing to exhibit my more recent love towards cities, through my city scapes. In the last decade or so, I have been travelling around the world, living substantial times in cities in US and India with my children, and that's when my companionship with cities started. Cities make me feel awed with the tall buildings, colorful billboards, traffic and busy people. To me, both Himalayas and buildings are trying to reach the skies, while one does it in the cool solitude, the other are vibrant societies. Cities show me stories in every person's face and every building's skin- sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometime funny, sometimes silly, but none of them stop or stare. Looking at them, I keep thinking if cities are places to make life or if they are places that are missing LIFE.
I try and find answers for such thoughts through my paintings. Integrating nature- rain, birds into places with no space for nature, and adding warm colors to the otherwise neutral tones of the buildings, are some of my favorite ways of bringing life and character to my city paintings.
The style of my paintings is a mixture of both traditional and modern approaches. I used many types of tools and techniques that I have developed over the years to give expressiveness to my paintings. Most of theses are oil on canvas that are made using traditional tools like palette knife and some of my own unique tools such as coconut leaves, single edge blades, hair combs, broom sticks etc. This use of different tools give an explosive texture to these impasto paintings. I feel, my cityscapes are fusions of my experiences with Himalayas and expectations of cities.
I am an artist and an experimentalist at heart. I love to experiment with art style, medium and the tools I use. I have worked on traditional oils on canvas, acrylics on canvas to my own unique mediums- photographic chemicals on bromides (which I call photo-paintings) and oil and acrylic on x-ray films. My work includes hundreds of painting in different mediums and styles with themes ranging from nature to different art forms to ancient Hindu gods and goddesses.
Having lived in rustic Himalayan regions for forty years, one of my most recurring painting themes is Himalayan landscapes and nature in both impressionistic and abstract styles. However, now I proposing to exhibit my more recent love towards cities, through my city scapes. In the last decade or so, I have been travelling around the world, living substantial times in cities in US and India with my children, and that's when my companionship with cities started. Cities make me feel awed with the tall buildings, colorful billboards, traffic and busy people. To me, both Himalayas and buildings are trying to reach the skies, while one does it in the cool solitude, the other are vibrant societies. Cities show me stories in every person's face and every building's skin- sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometime funny, sometimes silly, but none of them stop or stare. Looking at them, I keep thinking if cities are places to make life or if they are places that are missing LIFE.
I try and find answers for such thoughts through my paintings. Integrating nature- rain, birds into places with no space for nature, and adding warm colors to the otherwise neutral tones of the buildings, are some of my favorite ways of bringing life and character to my city paintings.
The style of my paintings is a mixture of both traditional and modern approaches. I used many types of tools and techniques that I have developed over the years to give expressiveness to my paintings. Most of theses are oil on canvas that are made using traditional tools like palette knife and some of my own unique tools such as coconut leaves, single edge blades, hair combs, broom sticks etc. This use of different tools give an explosive texture to these impasto paintings. I feel, my cityscapes are fusions of my experiences with Himalayas and expectations of cities.
"CITYSCAPE-1"
$6,350.34
"CITY ABSTRACTION-7"
Acrylic on Canvas | 40x40 in
$9,737.36
"CITY ABSTRACTION-2"
Acrylic on Canvas | 40x40 in
$11,578.19
"STAIRCASE"
Acrylic on Canvas | 40x30 in
$5,684.7
"ROMAN COLOSSEUM"
Acrylic on Canvas | 40x40 in
$6,566.44
"THE QUEEN OF HILLS"
Acrylic on Canvas | 30x40 in
$4,747.62
Prints available
"PINK CITY"
Acrylic on Canvas | 30x40 in
$4,038.54
Prints available
"Castel Sant'Angelo"
Acrylic on Canvas | 30x40 in
$4,082.6
"MANHATTAN WORLD TRADE CENTER"
Oil on Canvas | 42x32 in
$4,460.3
"CITY ABSTRACTION-10"
Acrylic on Canvas | 30x40 in
$7,808.37
"CITY ABSTRACTION-6"
Acrylic on Canvas | 30x40 in
$7,808.37
"CITY ABSTRACTION-3"
Acrylic on Canvas | 30x40 in
$7,808.37
"SPLASHY SCENE"
Acrylic on Canvas | 30x40 in
$6,566.44
"PERSPECTIVE"
Acrylic on Canvas | 40x30 in
$5,901.42
Prints available
"A SUMMER RESORT"
Acrylic on Canvas | 30x40 in
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"A BEAUTY OF AMSTERDAM"
Acrylic on Canvas | 30x40 in
$4,747.62
Prints available
"A DAY IN PARIS"
Acrylic on Canvas | 30x40 in
$4,659.5
Prints available
"BEAUTY OF LONDON SKYLINE"
Oil on Canvas | 30x42 in
$4,460.3
"CITY ABSTRACTION-9"
Acrylic on Canvas | 30x40 in
$7,808.37
"CITY ABSTRACTION-5"
Acrylic on Canvas | 30x40 in
$7,808.37
"MANAROLA"
Acrylic on Canvas | 40x40 in
$7,808.37
"GORGEOUS SCENE"
Acrylic on Canvas | 30x40 in
$5,945.47
"AESTHETIC BEAUTY"
Acrylic on Canvas | 30x40 in
$6,610.5
Prints available
"MY FOVORITE STREET"
Acrylic on Canvas | 30x40 in
$4,659.5
Prints available
"AFTER RAIN"
Acrylic on Canvas | 30x40 in
$4,703.57
Prints available
"URBAN BEAUTY"
Oil on Canvas | 40x40 in
$6,632.54
Prints available
"CITY OF JOY"
Acrylic on Canvas | 26x45 in
$3,848.11
Prints available
"CITY ABSTRACTION-8"
Acrylic on Canvas | 30x40 in
$7,808.37
"CITY ABSTRACTION-4"
Acrylic on Canvas | 30x40 in
$8,429.33
"THE VATICAN"
Acrylic on Canvas | 40x40 in
$6,610.5
"RAVISHING SPOT"
Acrylic on Canvas | 30x40 in
$5,280.47
"STRIPES"
Acrylic on Canvas | 40x30 in
$6,522.37
Prints available
"CLOUDED CITY"
Acrylic on Canvas | 40x30 in
$4,703.57
Prints available
"CITY ABSTRACTION"
Oil on Canvas | 45x35 in
$6,566.44
"NEW YORK SKYLINE"
Oil on Canvas | 31x43 in
$3,235.91
"CHICAGO SKY LINE"
Acrylic on Canvas | 30x41 in
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from $26.81
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