19th Solo Exhibition at Chanakya Gallery, New Delhi, 1975 Om Prakash is committed to the “continual extinction of personality in the creative process”. This need not alarm any one for what Keats called the “negative capability” of the poet or artist enables him to assume all identities or none. The latter takes place when one […]
“Om Prakash’s Unified Vision” Late – K.K. Nair, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 18 November 1974
Om Prakash’s Unified Vision Mathematical physics today rips off the flesh from reality, exposes the skeleton. But the mysticism of Pythagorean mathematics saw in a unified vision armature and tissue, structure and sensuous vestment. Om Prakash recovers this vision. His geometricism conserves the distilled image; a wicket gate opens on a meadow under a sky […]
“Abstraction, Fine and Subtle” Late – K.K Nair, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 4 November 1972
Abstraction, Fine and Subtle The rectilinear and curvilinear abstraction, practically exhausted of its possibilities by Mondrian and Delaunay, is explored again by Om Prakash and he has come up with new, subtle and exquisite solutions. His success lies in the great thought he gives to compositional construction, fine sense of colour, elegance and tidiness of […]
“Lyrical Compositions of Om Prakash” Art Critic, The Economic Times, New Delhi, 20 October 1971
Lyrical Compositions of Om Prakash Om Prakash’s works seem to restate William Blake’s observation “I question not my corporeal or vegetative eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight. I look through it and not with it”. There is a tightness of construction in these paintings, a continuity of mood which […]
“Moving Paintings by Om Prakash” Late – S.A. Krishnan, The Statesman, New Delhi, 11 November 1970
Moving Paintings by Om Prakash Om Prakash continues his high adventure of line, space and colour – of an intensely abstract metaphysical order. The enormous degree of discipline and imagination characteristic of everyone of his works is deceptively of a geometric nature but in truth, their cadence and melody is beyond geometry. The multiple intersection, […]
“Magnificent Work by Om Prakash” Late – S.A. Krishnan, The Statesman, New Delhi, 18 November 1969
Magnificent Work by Om Prakash There is a distinct musical quality, a precise kinship with sound patterns and melody. Indeed he surpasses himself, by a long stride over the remarkably successful work seen in his last show. His current work is as soundly based on a immaculate inter-relationship of design and colour, mass and form […]
“Beautiful Exhibition by Om Prakash,” Late – Richard Bartholomew, The Times of India, New Delhi, 18 November 1969
Beautiful Exhibition by Om Prakash In the past three years the paintings of Om Prakash have become more and more articulate and the present exhibition is his finest. There is a clarity of vision. Immaculate craftsmanship always impresses, but, when it embodies feeling and not merely cleverness, we have sensitive art. At some stage in […]
“12th Solo Exhibition, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi, 1968,” Late – Richard Bartholomew, The Times of India, New Delhi, 18 November 1968
12th Solo Exhibition, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi, 1968 Without seeming to apply any rigid theory Om Prakash manages to communicate the theme of radiation. I like to look at these paintings as signals. Traffic signs and super-sensory cards are signal material : and so is stained-glass and shot skill. Even star-shine and diamonds give you […]
“Out of the Beaten Track,” Art Critic, Indian Express, New Delhi, 25 October 1967
Out of Beaten Track It is encouraging to see Om Prakash not following the usual tract of the majority of modern Indian painters, who have been repeating themselves by conjuring up Indianness with a western sympathy devoid of authentic awareness. His effort is significant in the sense that if he is abstract, he courageously means […]
“Solo Exhibition at Ligoa Duncan Arts Centre, New York City,” E.McG. Park East, New York, U.S.A., 14 October 1965
Solo Exhibition at Ligoa Duncan Arts Centre, New York City Oil paintings by Om Prakash are abstract and deftly executed, often suggesting the lustrous colours of Indian Silks. His works sometimes are involved studies of the effects of interlocking shapes like Diagonals where rectangular shapes thrust toward the centre of the composition, subtly mixing blues […]