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PAGE SIX * THE FREE PRESS BULLETIN

Dynamic graphics

[[left-hand side; photograph of Zarina, captioned "Zarina - Unforgettable graphics"

Curiously two artists having their one-man exhibitions this week were born in the same year, 1937. They happen to be Zarina at Pundole Art Gallery (till 26th) and V. D. Agashe at the Taj Art Gallery (till 23rd). Both are intense and dynamic in their approach and perhaps, to some extent at least could be accepted as typifying their age group among the contemporary Indian artists. Here their commonness ends. Their technique and media are entirely different.

Zarina is a graphic artist (so far as her current collection is concerned) mainly interested in a play of triangles, rectangles, squares of black against against a white 
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to Zarina's attempt at extending her 'conceptions' into the third dimension as in her 'objects' which could also adorn any sideboard or side tables in a modern decor.

Zarina's exhibition also incidentally reveals the peculiar fascination black and white has as against all the colours of a rainbow, so to say. Thus, perhaps, why the black and white film (well photographed) holds its own even today despite the ever increasing production of the most brilliant technicolour extravaganzas (current striking example: Anubhav).

One jarring note in Zarina;s collection: one wishes she had paid sufficient attention to the mounting and framing of her prints. They leave much to desire. At times such minute details mean much to the finish.

Agashe's abstracts have a basis of the realistic as amply evinced in his titles. He would appear to