The sheer magnetism of the black and white painting that hung on the walls of National Gallery of Modern Art left the visitors in amazement. Powerful in its simplicity, it consisted of a white circle on a black background with white strokes emanating from it. This minimalist work was the marvelous creation of a Paris-based artist. Educated mostly by upper-caste Hindus, Syed Haider Raza was immersed in the Ramayana and Bhagavad Gita as a young boy, from which he derived some of his most significant ideas and inspirations for his work that led to the emergence of the very famous Bindu Series.
4 July 2019
