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| Fantasy (Under Sea), 1979, oil on canvas, 42.0 x 36.0 in._106.7x91.4 cm.
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NEW YORK, NY.- Madhvi Parekh’s art embodies an intuition of significance that is wholly relevant to a world in the grip of a global ecological crisis. She is an artist for our times. Susanne Langer, whose path-breaking work on aesthetics is again enjoying currency, thought that in a successful work of art "symbolic form, symbolic function, and symbolized import are all telescoped into one experience, a perception of beauty and an intuition of significance." Look at Parekh’s paintings. You will see, possibly in a flash, that they exemplify Langer’s great insight. Madhvi Parekh was born and grew up in Sanjaya, a village in the Indian state of Gujarat. [
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| Playing With Animals, 1989, oil on canvas, 44.7 x 55.0 in._113.5x139.7 cm. |
