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Artist Statement:
my academic background is in
psychology, i started
exploring painting and great
artists during college i.e. in
the 1980s. i was administering
the rorschach ink-blot test
and my friend's response to a
card was that it looked like a
painting by toulouse-lautrec
and i didn't know what that
looked like. so he brought
over a thick, fat book on art
and showed me.
once i entered this world i
just went headlong on. i
started out, as most other
artists i suppose, with a lot
of sketching and copies of the
great masters. as i was
training in psychology at the
time and participating in
several self-awareness/therapy
workshops, i was especially
fascinated by the connection
between the inner world of the
artist and their paintings.
personally, my collective
consciousness is steeped in
indian mythology, lore,
tradition, and philosophy. in
the process of formal
education i imbibed the
western rationalist-scientific
approach as also a very
individualistic mode of
thinking. but as i travelled
deeper in psychology i was led
again to meditation and the
mystical practices. i now
firmly believe that
investigation into inner
worlds is of paramount
significance. my inner
journeys have ...
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Meenal Chaudhari Biography:
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Age
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44
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
mysticism |
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| Education |
Self Taught |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Acrylic
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Expressionism - (1905 - 1945)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
picasso, vermeer, rembrandt, modigliani,
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| Favorite Work of Art |
frida kahlo's self portraits
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
personally, my collective consciousness is steeped in indian mythology, lore, tradition, and philosophy. in the process of formal education i imbibed the western rationalist-scientific approach as also a very individualistic mode of thinking. but as i travelled deeper in psychology i was led again to meditation and the mystical practices. i now firmly believe that investigation into inner worlds is of paramount significance. my inner journeys have deepened considerably with the practice of yoga, meditation, research in consciousness, rebirthing, several other techniques of self-awareness and of course intuition. my art expresses some of these explorations.
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
painting and digital art became a full time activity with the onset of the new millennium i.e. Jan 2000. i bought a few canvases and some acrylic paints and jumped right into it. my first canvas was inspired by the mountain arunachalam. i had just heard of it and was reading a book on ramana maharishi and his discourse on advaita philosophy. the mountain is said to have the energy of shiva and is regarded as the fire mountain. ( it houses a temple dedicated to the fire element.) anyhow as i was reading i was feeling the energy of this mountain and so started sketching it and then putting it on canvas.
my first painting 'lingarms' was created thus. shiva has always evoked its counterpart shakti and the two are as yin-yang to me. so i play with this and with being able to view them vertically and horizontally and i play with colours, and with seeing lingums where the arms are and yonis where the laps are etc. so i enjoyed looking at them from different angles and yet seeing their essential form (kind of a reverse on cubism?). i paint so i can put across these incredible concepts that are so difficult, if not impossible, to articulate!
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| Your Personal Biography |
I am a trained psychologist & psychotherapist. Over the years I’ve moved into meditation, yoga and other self-exploratory techniques. I use writing, acting, dance and painting as means of creative expression. Since 2000, the focus has been on paintings and digital art works.
My aesthetic influences come from transpersonal and depth psychology, psychotherapy, meditation, world cinema, theater, contemporary dance, graphic designing and multimedia. Essentially I paint as I love playing with colours.
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