Book Review Title: Amrita & Victor Author: Ashwini Bhatnagar Publisher: Fingerprint, New Delhi, 2023 Pages: 216 Artists see reality differently. The colours and contours of objects catch their attention first. Most of us who are not so artistic perceive objects conceptually. Non-artists turn images into concepts, in other words. Colours and contours have much to do with emotions and passions. No wonder Irving Stone’s biographical novel on Vincent Van Gogh is titled Lust for Life . Art is a kind of lust, or result of lust. Amrita & Victor is the biography of a very gifted painter who died at the young age of 28 years, having achieved considerable fame. Her full name was Amrita Dalma Antonia Sher-Gil. Her mother Marie Antoinette was from Hungary and she got the child baptised as a Christian. The father, Umrao Sher-Gil, was a Sikh from India who didn’t care much for religion. Amrita got professional training in art right from her childhood. Everyone who came into co...
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