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 […]
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
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 minimized after a closer look. Here, there
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
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
“12th Solo Exhibition, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi, 1968,” Late – Richard Bartholomew, The Times of India, New Delhi, 18 November 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 :