DIVINE ARTISTRY

ASHOK VAJPEYI, A CLOSE FRIEND OF S.H. RAZA, DRAWS AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST IN CELEBRATION & PRAYER

- -Aman Nath

If Raza rose from his grave and read the vast literature on his art, he would learn a lot about what he had never painted, not intended that to be the mission or message of his work! He was a quiet, wise man humbled by his own cosmic vision. A lot of irrelevance has been attributed to Raza's art while his internal tapasya—meditation—was tuned more towards a spiritual reverence to colours and forms. Ashok Vajpeyi's quiet little book scores some advantages: brevity, intimacy, and a poetic interpretation, which stays clear of art jar