ANDHRA SCULPTURE Dr.Sanjiva Dev |
After the Kakatiya sculpture,the Vijay-anagara sculpture is worth mentioning The Vijayanagara Empire was founded in 1336 A.D.the magnificent the talented sculptors under the Vijaya-nagara rulers produced sculptures of Hanpi. The sculpture of Hampi is neither so subtle as the Kakatiya sculpture nor so expensive as those of Amaravati and Nagarjunakonda.The sculpture of Hampi is vigorous and gigantic and thus it is a tour de force. The images of Ugra Narasimha, Virupa-ksha, Hazura Ram Swami and Ganesh are full of strength and sublimity. It is a wonder to found the presence of some sort of sculpture of some historical period in every village and town of AndhraPradesh.It seems AndhraPradesh is a land of sculpture, sculpture and sculpture!! Even in modern Andhra pradesh there are eminent living sculptors both in educated and the uneducated classes. Among these contemporary sculptors there are only a few who excuse compositions either in figures or in other themes. Many of the present Andhra sculptures are wont of producing portrait sculptures or statue of men and women. Sculptures in modernist style is limited in India and hence in Andhra Pradesh too. Long ago there was a young Andhra sculptor in Madras, by name Devi PrasadNarayanaRao who produced creative compositions in sculpture full of vibrant rhythm and movement. There is another creative artist V.V. Choudary who was produced sculpture in modern style, with no details in created forms, with more mass than delineation.C.S.N.Patnaik and Y.V.Lak-shmaiah have produced a number of sculptures with meticulous dexterity in execution.Both of them have also done some creative compositions in |
sculp-ture.C.S.N.Patnaik is a lecture in scul-pture at the govt women’s college Guntur.Y.V.Lakshmaiah had been in Italy for five years and earned reputation there as a gifted artist. A.paidiraju of Vizayanagaram has also produced some statues, which reveal the true characters of men,and women whom they present. A.R.Krishna at present of Hyderabad, used to make exquisite sculptures;but it seems he is no more interested in creative arts.G.Balu of Hyderabad is a talented scul-ptor who studied sculpture at faculty of fine arts of M.S.university of Baroda under prof.Sankho Choudary, one of the celebrated modern India sculptors.Balu represented Andhra Pradesh in the fourth all India sculpt-or’s camp at beneras organized by the central lalita kala academy in1971.there are some more young talented sculptors in Andhra pradesh who have not as yet come into limelight. Many of the sculptors of modern A.P execute their works in clay and then get them cast in bronze; they are not wont of carving the stone direct.there are some professional sculptors such as mahamayachari of vemuru in Guntur district who execute sculpture in vari-ous media including direct carving of stone. Apart from the sculptors trained in the colleges of fine arts, there is a number of traditional professional sculptors throughout the andhrapradesh,who are unsophisticated and not contaminated by modern education. There is a small village, by name purushatpatnam in Guntur district, where there are some families of Muslim sculptors who produce sculptures of Hindu gods and goddesses in stone. They carve both gigantic as well as miniature images direct out of huge rocks.It is said a couple of these Andhra Muslim sculp-tors were taken away to Delhi by | the govert for decorating the buildings of the reserve bank of India with their sculptures. Art and artists, especially sculpture and sculptors, need greater patronage for sculpture, unlike other arts,withers in the absence of adequ-ate patronage,because sculpture can not attract the hearts of the people so easily as painting,music and dance do.
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