Painting titled "Golden Desert II" by Ananta Mandal, Original Artwork, Watercolor

Golden Desert II (2015) Painting by Ananta Mandal

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Original Artwork Painting, Watercolor on Paper

Artworks classification

Original Artwork

Original Artwork refers to any work that is considered authentic and not a copy or imitation of the original works of an artist. Original artwork can be any type of painting, sculpture, performance, or other media. There are many types of original media. Mixed media includes oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings. For workshop paintings that bear evidence of master craftsmanship, this attribution must be further qualified. While they may be less valuable for different reasons, reproductions and copies have had a tremendous impact on our experience. They reach a greater audience than originals and act as a tonic against commodification. Original Artwork could also refer to the first work, which is always preceding all others. It could also refer to a prototype or a model from which other works can be made. Each work bears great similarities to the original.
Dimensions Height 30.1in, Width 45.1in
Categories Paintings under $5,000 Impressionism Desert

The painting comes from my Rajasthan - the color of ecstasy’ collection.I visited Rajasthan for all its glory in 2012. The cutting edge golden light dazzled me, the colors lured me, the sandy dunes with their curves and patterns entangled with my creative self. The diverse characters of the locals and indispensable camel enthralled me, the architectural[...]

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Watercolor

Watercolor is a painting in which gum arabic binds transparent pigments revealing the support of the painting. The gouache, of identical composition, is opaque. A watercolor is a water-based painting on paper. We rarely speak of a painting for a work painted in watercolor. Watercolor paintings are considered to be a unique way to creatively represent dreams, illusions, emotions and luminous feelings using water soluble pigments. However, painting with watercolors can be difficult. It's a difficult medium to master, in large part because it can be ruthless and unpredictable. Mistakes are difficult to correct and its fluid nature makes it difficult to control. Yet it is these very qualities that give the medium its undeniable charm.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

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Rajasthan India Desert Dunes Sand

Ananta Mandal

India

Ananta Mandal, originally from West Bengal, lives and creates in Mumbai, India. He moved there in 2007, after completing his Bachelor of Visual Arts in the discipline of Graphic Design and Applied[...]

During his college days, Ananta bagged many national and international awards. From participating in the prestigious Harmony Art show, Mumbai in 2008, his excellent achievements include the First Place Award from 36th International Exhibition at the Watercolor Art Society-Houston, USA in 2013, The Winsor & Newton Excellence Award from Northwest Watercolor Society, USA in 2012, Award for Best Landscape in Watercolor from The Bombay Art Society, Mumbai, in both 2006 and 2011, and many more.

Ananta is known as an expressive and imaginative painter. His paintings are mostly created in impressionist manner and surrealist way in various mediums like watercolor, oil and acrylic. He has developed a highly individual style, deeply contemporary in its sensibilities. His paintings are best known for realistic urban landscapes. His brush stroke speaks of many things: the hustle and bustle of modern city life, figurative movements, festive seasons, seascapes and lakes, the time endured by old railway steam engine, tropical desert, and the many moods of nature; where fluid moments are brilliantly captured by the artist. He has also gained recognition for his surrealistic paintings. His youthful exuberance and his wide-eyed optimism reflect in the paintings. He has a fine sense of composition with an eye for subtle details and a tactile sense of monsoon atmospherics. Ananta has shown with considerable skill, how in the presence of rain, human activities are endowed with a special beauty. His water colors are bright and sensuous but their atmosphere evokes a strange mysteriousness.

His sketchy use of acrylic and oil, lends his figures vitality and fluidity of motion with surface wrinkles; his color and tonal compositions set up a dynamic encounter in a neutral space fraught with ambiguity. Different textures, add to the meaning and depth of his artworks while contrast between transparent areas and thick, solid paint with varying intensity of strokes, gives surface a palpable quality.

Ananta is a member of numerous art organizations, including Member of The Pennsylvania Watercolor Society 2012-13, San Diego Watercolor Society, U.S.A. - 2008-09, Philadelphia Watercolor Society, U.S.A. - 2008-09. Life Member of the Bombay Art Society, the Art Society of India, Mumbai.

Outside of painting, he conducts workshops in artistry and makes experimental films and video installations based on his paintings, and enjoys photography.

His works can be viewed in numerous public and private collections worldwide.