| Medium | : | Acrylic |
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| Surface | : | Canvas |
| Style | : | Figurative Paintings |
| Year | : | 2025 |
A lyrical figurative painting depicting two women in moments of celebration and contemplation. Through warm earthy tones, stylized forms, and symbolic details such as a floral garland and festive pennants, the artwork reflects themes of memory, connection, and the quiet emotions that shape human experience.
Samir Sarkar | Acrylic on Canvas
This evocative figurative painting explores the delicate interplay between memory, longing, and companionship. Divided into two visual realms, the composition presents two women immersed in their own quiet worlds, yet subtly connected through mood and symbolism. One figure gently holds a garland beneath festive pennants, while the other sits in contemplation beneath the soft silhouette of a palm frond, creating a narrative that feels both intimate and timeless.
The artist’s signature stylized forms, elongated faces, and graceful postures lend the work a dreamlike quality. The woman holding the garland appears poised in a moment of anticipation, perhaps preparing for a celebration or cherishing a cherished memory. In contrast, the seated figure radiates introspection and serenity, inviting viewers to reflect on their own moments of solitude and emotional reflection.
A rich palette of earthy reds, muted greens, and soft blues enhances the painting’s emotional depth. The contrasting spaces suggest the dual nature of human experience—celebration and contemplation, togetherness and solitude, memory and the present moment. Through simplified forms and symbolic elements, the artist transforms an everyday scene into a poetic meditation on emotion, connection, and the quiet beauty found in life’s fleeting moments.
Elegant and deeply expressive, this artwork brings warmth, narrative, and a sense of calm reflection to any collection or interior space.
All my paintings have people wearing some headgear that has a face painted on them. This depicts the double-faced nature of people. Like we see in most profession where one wears uniform, like a policeman, a nurse, an army personnel or the Pope. One wears headgear to go with it as well. To me it is the depiction of the fact that we always wear a face that is different from the real one we have.
It is like a face we have to put up to suit the personality we want to project which is always different from the real one. For the past 25 years, acrylic colour has been the main medium for my paintings. After doing the line drawing on paper or canvas, a layer of acrylic is used like tempera on it. Then slowly the subjects and people are given shape using more layers of colour. Since I use fast colour, it gives a definite brightness to the figures. My figures have a definite inspiration from Egyptian paintings, thus the figures are drawn in the same form, the clothes that they wear have long lines making them look taller and in a way Egyptian. Most of my paintings are on 42½ x 48½ size which takes about 100 hours. My paintings, in a way are people I live with. They give me inspiration to produce more, to experiment more and thus to create my own world with them. It’s my world that I want the world to see.
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