Om Prakash’s Paintings are ‘Exciting’ It would perhaps be thought by some that Om Prakash’s recent works, on show at Kumar Gallery, is done in too many modes, that there is a disconnection between one group of works and another. But this first reaction is likely to be minimised after a closer look. Here, there […]
“Three Painters for Delhi,” Nissim Ezekiel, The Times of India, Mumbai, 12 December 1963
Three Painters from Delhi – Forms and Patterns Om Prakash Sharma is easier to interpret. His Forms with the Sky constructs vertical highly textured shapes against a seething background with skyline and sun impressively there on the canvas, as counterpoint to the abstraction. This is very good method of creating tension. Folk is confines to […]
“A Gifted Young Painter.” Late – Dr Charles Fabri, The Statesman, New Delhi, 22 October 1961
A Gifted Young Painter Om Prakash seems to have suddenly blossomed out into a style that marks him a painter of considerable talent and power. It is, in fact a matter for congratulation that this young artist now 29 years old, should present so outstandingly good an exhibition. The most striking element in these pictures […]