DR. YASHODHAR MATHPAL’S PORTRAIT AS A DOCUMENT

Abstract [English]

Whenever we look at an artwork, we often don’t know about what the difference is in between, seeing and observing. We often perceive the overall effect created by that work of art, without noticing the details. Off course, the effect created by that artwork in total plays an important part in evoking both positive and negative emotions. But there are few images which speak to the mind and inner self within minutes or seconds. In Visual Art the artists have ben recording, incidents, ideas, and messages. The reason why it has been labelled for documenting, illustrating and narrative qualities.
There is no possible way in which we understand a work of art through magic. We cannot imagine reading novel/ book just by looking at its cover. With the same note we should conclude that every painting has some hidden message to it. Which cannot be seen all at once, unless and until if one tries to look. By looking I mean observing carefully and with enough curiosity, to understand the characters and the story that it narrates. There can be no ascertain way where we see that certain paintings affect us deeply while others leave us cold, no criteria for a painting as to why it becomes a famous work of art, later known as a masterpiece to the world.