Swayavedan 9

Abstract portraits confront peculiar challenges. When we see faces in everything, then we see a perception that imposes a meaningful interpretation. But when we see everything in faces, that is called empathy. Abstract portraits inhabit a space somewhere between the two, and artists contend simultaneously with both. In some ways, the natural habit humans have of perceiving familiar visual patterns everywhere, regardless of whether they are actually there, can benefit the makers of abstract portraits.
Lakshman Chavan is one of the brilliant contemporary artists based in Badlapur. His body of work presents various identity and personality of human and divine through faces and abstract portraits. Lakshman?s work of art depicts the complex personality of a common man representing a bare reference the human face in order to evoke the sense of it.
Lakshman?s visual composition presents faces in great ascetic that is abstaining from all forms of indulgence and pleasure, concentrating, deeply involved in concentration as an honest witness. The concept depicted narrates our identity that is oriented towards realizing one?s full potential to make a cultural and spiritual identity.
Lakshman?s visual composition provides a natural tendency to the viewer to empathize with their perception with the image of a recognizable other favouring of the concept of the work. The strong, calm faces is associated with time, creation and destruction.
Lakshman?s work of art incorporates two faculties ? 1) He utilizes the concept of portraiture in some way and 2) it is abstract, dealing with the realm of ideas avoiding a purely objective or representational approach to reality. Thus, the work of art contains good abstract aesthetic phenomenon that incorporates the face of imaginary. His paintings is often seen as carrying a moral dimension, standing for some virtues such as order, purity, simplicity and spirituality.