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Meet the latest BananaBandy artist under the spotlight, Kriti Garg!
The talented artist specialising in fine arts is currently pursuing her second year of Liberal Arts education at Ashoka University. Though she specialises in sketching, the route that has led her where she is today hasn’t been so straightforward. As a child, Kriti tried several different fields from dancing to playing musical instruments but nothing really stuck to her, that is, till she discovered painting.
Though I had been painting since so long as I can remember, it was only in my mid-teens that I realised that I can’t live without painting.
Kriti is one of the few artists who do not follow a specific process in their projects. Instead she prefers to work as per the situation and that is what we believe gives each of her projects a distinct touch from the rest. She does however, believe in making mistakes and considers mistakes to a part of the cycle of creating new artwork.
There is no process. Nothing is constant in two different projects. The only thing which is common to all my works is mistakes. I have been making mistakes in my artwork from the very start and it is these very mistakes which have led to 3 a.m. epiphanies and to the things which others believe have some deeper meaning.
She is currently working on a new portrait project which she says is ” Probably the first painting project of mine which has not been ‘demanded’ by relatives.” Aside from that she isn’t very sure about her future and where it leads.
However, there is one thing that I know for sure. Wherever my future leads me, community service/outreach and painting will absolutely be a part of it. I am still exploring my interests but artwork shall always be my field, even if the goals change.
One her stance towards a formal education in fine arts, Kriti believes that an individual should work on developing his or her own style first and only then go to an institution to learn fine arts. The presence of an instructor who may possess an artistic style different from the pupil might corrupt and irreversibly change the pupil’s own unique style just because it doesn’t fit in with what the instructor terms as art.
She personally believes in creating whatever she wishes first and foremost, regardless of whether it has been derived from western culture, Indian culture or it is an entirely different and utterly original idea of her own. However, as an artist she does speak fondly of the important that Indian art from the past still plays in the artwork that we practise today.
The contribution of India’s culture and diversity to art is one thing that I am very proud of. I think with growing westernisation, European influence is becoming more and more visible in Indian art but simultaneously there has been a recent surge in the demand for art derived from our culture.
Over Three Rises: I remember my mum guiding me through my first canvas. 6th grade? yeah. Even at such a young age she felt that I’d able to do a piece successfully. When I sat down with colour pencils and paper for this one, after half hour she said “nahi ho payega”. I left it mid way, resumed it after 2 days and completed while she wasn’t home.
Quick Questions:
Name a book that everybody must read?
The Fall of the Human Intellect
Your Favourite Hexadecimal Colour Code?
Favourite Font?
Bradley Hand/Old English
What’s the most annoying cliché in art that you’ve observed?
“I don’t know about Art but I do Abstract”
Which is the coolest project that you’ve seen on BananaBandy?
I have been fascinated by digital art lately, so I came across this project named ‘Smooth Digital Art’ which made me feel worse about my wanna be photoshopping skills.
If you were not an artist then what would you be?
Would I be?
