Beyond Chrysalis Throughout a most visibly and acoustically fecund professional life, Om Prakash has to project beyond powerful forms and vibrant colors. Inherent in his depiction of such visible and intangible realities, unfold realms beyond appearance, attesting to symbolic and energy interrelationship, Such tangible matter and energy alike are dependent upon the existence of light […]
“Justifying Creativity” Aruna Bhowmick – The Statesman, New Delhi, Sep 28, 2007
Justifying Creativity Popularly known as Om Prakash, Mr. Om Prakash Sharma was born in Haryana in 1932. His early art education was in Meerut, from where he came for higher education to the then Delhi Polytechnic, of which he later become the principal for 11 years from 1981 to 1992, and thence to Columbia University […]
For the Catalogue of Om Prakash’s 54th Solo Exhibition at Lalit Kala Akademi, Prof. Lokesh Chandra, September, 2007
For the Catalogue of Om Prakash’s 54th Solo Exhibition at Lalit Kala Akademi The present exhibition of cosmographic paintings by Prof. Om Prakash Sharma are the randoms of the stream of consciousness, gathering impressions from his hieratic genes, in the unity of wisdom of auto-consciousness. His golden mind comes flooding, lapping and dancing in colours […]
“In a Mandala of Peace” Pramila Lochan – Sunday Herald, Bangaluru, July 22, 2001
In a Mandala of Peace It was the perfect ambience as willed by Prof. O.P.Sharma the artist. Seated on stage in the spatial beauty of Gallery Zen, the surbahar in hand and surrounded with his paintings on display. It had been his will to perform amidst his works. Engrossed in Drawing out the intricacies of […]
“Om Prakash Sharma : A Gilded Spirituality” ART & DEAL, New Delhi, August – September 1999
Om Prakash Sharma : A Gilded Spirituality Mapping the artistic contours of an artist of the strature of Om Prakash Sharma is an immensely donting task – an attempt to decipher an idiom which has developed through an arduous period of hard work, introspection and refinement; all of which find resonance and identity in his […]
“Om Prakash Sharma, ‘Bringing Indian Philosophy to light through modern abstraction’” Nelly Lama, Published in: Arab Daily, Amman, 27 May 1999
Om Prakash Sharma, ‘Bringing Indian Philosophy to light through modern abstraction’ Om Prakash principal at the College of Art, New Delhi bring exotic paintings filled with delightful colour intensities and cosmic symbolisms to Darat al Funun, in Amman. A well traveled and well rounded artist, his talks on the “Journey of Art” have been turned […]
“Body Rhythms : There is a music in the female form” Aruna Narlikar, The Times of India, 13 January 1995
Body Rhythms : There is a music in the female form The drawings of female nudes at Gallery Aurobindo might surprise many a viewer. Because Om Prakash is better known for his Mandalas inclinations. These drawings were done way back in the ’60s while he was studying in New York as a Fulbright scholar for […]
“Om Prakash at World Wide Art Gallery, New York” Kathleen Finley Magnan, Asian Art News, Honkong, May-June 1994
Om Prakash at World Wide Art Gallery, New York Om Prakash is an artist of many talents – he infuses his musical, academic and creative passions into his own version of aesthetic. As a sitar player, a teacher and an artist, Prakash allows his lifelong interests to filter into his paintings as visual components in […]
“A Swing Back to Nature In Glowing Colours” Late – P.N. Mago, Patriot, New Delhi, 8 December 1992
A Swing Back to Nature In Glowing Colours Om Prakash, in his recent painting entitled On Top of the Clouds displayed at Hyatt Regency, reveals a significant development in his creative approach-a swing back to a rendering of nature in most novel and innovative expression. In fact, during the last four decades has undergone a […]
“Quest for A Mystic Order” Manasij Majumdar, The Telegraph, Calcutta, Wednesday- 24 January 1990
Quest for A Mystic Order Om Prakash who is presently exhibiting a selection of his paintings done during the Eighties at Genesis Gallery, is a Delhi based artist widely known as a painter of the school. Edgy, disciplined and very tidy symmetric composition of the pictorial space defined by varied and vivid emotive colours in […]