Avish Juluri, just 6, is gearing up for his first solo show
Colours & forms: Avish says he particularly enjoys painting abstracts and attaching meanings to them
Hyderabad: Anyone who frequents art shows in the city knows that solo shows of artist Sravanthi Juluri will always have a special feature art or sometimes even criticism by six-year old Avish Juluri.
While Avish’s first painting Maata-Putra, at his mother’s solo show, had captured everyone’s attention, today he claims that he is even stealing buyers from his mother’s clientele.
Gearing up for his first solo show that opens on December 5, Avish says, “I always loved spending time in my mother’s studio and the colours attracted me, I would pick up different bright colours and brushes and start painting.”
Avish paints on issues that are close to his heart nature, animal and the effects of pollution on earth. “I never ask my mother for ideas, but she taught me a few techniques. Of course, my mom has been my inspiration, I have watched her paint ever since I was a little child. I like to go along with my mother to galleries and always wanted to put up my own paintings. I also like to watch Laxma Goud tata (grandfather) paint,” he adds.
He uses what he studies at school as inspiration too. “Once we also learnt about the life cycle of a butterfly at school. So I painted how pollution is not allowing butterflies to come out of their cocoons. I sometimes show these paintings to my teacher and make that my class project,” says the young artist, who specially “loves abstracts”.
Avish, like any other kid in his age group, is also a big fan of the Transformers and collects action figures. He holds a blue belt in Taekwondo, and has started learning Pherini Shiva Tandavam.
Ask him if he would ever like to compete with his mother and he feels he has already raised the bar. “I have stolen many of her clients, they like my paintings. Yes, I am confident that I will be a bigger artist than her,” he says, to which Sravanthi jokes, “I could just retire.”
( Source : dc correspondent )
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