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Daily News & Analysis
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Where flame is brush, smokes colour
Artist develops technique to fill colour in his artwork by burning paper
Maulik Buch. Vadodara
Fire burns paper and destroys anything written or painted on it. But this Vadodara artist uses fire to give colour to his art. Artist Kamal Rana has developed an innovative technique of filling up colour in his artwork by burning the paper at the right places. He calls it fire painting. "The grace in the movements in a flame always fascinated me. I could see life in the flame. I tried to put the movement of flames in my art, and after a lot of experiments, I succeeded," says Rana.After graduating from MSU's faculty of fine arts in 1983, Kamal started a career as a painter. But he wanted to look beyond brushes and colours. Eventually, he experimented with figurative art using flames as brush and smoke as colour. In 1993, he brought out his first fire painting. Talking of the method, he says, "Fire painting needs a special kind of paper, which costs around Rs3,000 a sheet. I use highly inflammable material to light up the fire in the picture at places where I want to fill colours. Around 70 litres of inflammable material is used to make one painting with fire. I measure the space to be coloured with fire or smoke and then put the inflammable material and light the fire. As soon as the fire is lit, the smoke and the flames create bouquet of colours, which form the basis of my painting."Kamal is the only artist in the country who paints with flames. His art has been acknowledged by the renowned artists such as Zuben Chaudary, Shakti Berman, Bhupen Khakker and many more.
Daily News & Analysis
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Where flame is brush, smokes colour
Artist develops technique to fill colour in his artwork by burning paper
Maulik Buch. Vadodara
Fire burns paper and destroys anything written or painted on it. But this Vadodara artist uses fire to give colour to his art. Artist Kamal Rana has developed an innovative technique of filling up colour in his artwork by burning the paper at the right places. He calls it fire painting. "The grace in the movements in a flame always fascinated me. I could see life in the flame. I tried to put the movement of flames in my art, and after a lot of experiments, I succeeded," says Rana.After graduating from MSU's faculty of fine arts in 1983, Kamal started a career as a painter. But he wanted to look beyond brushes and colours. Eventually, he experimented with figurative art using flames as brush and smoke as colour. In 1993, he brought out his first fire painting. Talking of the method, he says, "Fire painting needs a special kind of paper, which costs around Rs3,000 a sheet. I use highly inflammable material to light up the fire in the picture at places where I want to fill colours. Around 70 litres of inflammable material is used to make one painting with fire. I measure the space to be coloured with fire or smoke and then put the inflammable material and light the fire. As soon as the fire is lit, the smoke and the flames create bouquet of colours, which form the basis of my painting."Kamal is the only artist in the country who paints with flames. His art has been acknowledged by the renowned artists such as Zuben Chaudary, Shakti Berman, Bhupen Khakker and many more.
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