Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
I read with interest the article on Indian Painting by Romen Palit in “Triveni” Vol 56 No 1. It is really surprising and also sad that the writer of the essay did not mention even one eminent Andhra artist in his long list excepting V. R. Chitra. Does it mean that great artists of Andhra like Damerla Rama Rao, Kouta Anand Mohan, Adivi Bapiraju, Ankala Venkata Subba Rao, Chamakur Satyanarayana, Varada Venkataratnam, Chavali Nageswara Rao, apart from a host of others, are also not known outside of Andhra? Or, are the art critics and artists of other States deliberately ignoring the artists of Andhra?
“It is not that other provinces lacked creativity in art form and art creation, but they produced objects not extraordinary or having vigour of genuine creation”, says Palit. Should this statement go unchallenged?
Yours sincerely,
M. S. SARMA