An outstanding painting by Lapata
I am grateful to Minos for sending me the link to this brilliant painting by Lapata. This is a fine composition with a dream-like quality depicting the three unfortunate but towering politicians of our times. And, this also brings together the South Asian dynastic hubris in a neutral, no-politics-in-your-face manner.
Wish I could get this one – hate this consumerist urge; but the struggle is pretty engaging as well. Let me also reproduce the few lines that introduce our accomplished artist:
Lapata (pronounced l¡h-putt-¡h), the artist’s takhallus, or alias, is Urdu for missing, or absconded, as in my luggage is missing,or the bandits have absconded.She also writes for the blog Chapati Mysteryand posts many of her paintings there. Lapata grew up in a family of artists in western Massachusetts, some whose work adorns the surfaces of chinaware and brightens up the waiting rooms of dentists offices, and others whose artistic output has found more select audiences.
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Thanks for the very complimentary post! This painting and the others on my site are on exhibit in San Francisco right now at the Bollyhood Cafe, so if you are in the area in the next month (or two- I think it will be up a month longer than we had planned, so until early April), please drop by and take a look. For those with the consumerist urge, the paintings are, in fact, for sale (the pricelist can be downloaded from this page).
That black bar between benazir and Bhutto, indira tells a lot !!!
La-pata: So we have found the ‘missing’ – many thanks for the visit and appreciating the humble tribute your fine work. Good that you mentioned the price tags and the place of exhibition. The only problem for me is that I am thousand of miles away..wish I could see all your works
Please do send us more images as I would love to post more about your BB series.
Mystic: the black bar is a separate panel and yes it is quite meaningful..
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