Jayakrishnan
IT was a pleasure visiting your exhibition and more surprising to see that you are just 20 years and yesterday was your birthday. Just few observations take it with a grain of salt , it may not make much sense.
All the navarasas were done very well , few of them were superb like fear , rudram, anger. Only sympathy face was something I did not get it. I am not much into art at all, but I feel if you had depicted just these navarasas without the excess kathakali costume the face expressions would have come out well . Not that I am undermining about kathakali, I am a fish out of water there, just felt there was little too much makeup. Perhaps I am cribbing more the kathakali than your painting here . As I said if it does not make sense just drop it, I am kansen there.
ON your miscellaneous painting I loved the umbrella the most. Good luck with your painting and your music , one of the days when I attend be ready with the navarsasa slokham where I am sure you can render with almost the navarasa of atleast neyveli , your guru, who is closest to MDR in terms of baritone voice.
I would love if you could paint different musicians other than mdr . How about running your imagination say like MMI singing kApinArayani, SSI singing kharaharapriyA , GNB singing jayanthashree, kVN singing sahana , santhanam singing shivaranjani, TNR playing Todi, mAli playing kApi that would be a wonderful tribute too .
The pick of the whole lot is the MDR portrait (not the spectacled or the one opposite to that , the next one to spectacled one) the very light coloured one . I am listening rAma neepai tanuku of MDR in kedaram, kind of navarasagullA to me more than navarasam
