The Art Gallery Poem by Avik Datta Gupta

Painters are of different kinds..with myriad ideas within their minds..
There was this artist..who tried to inject life amidst his paintings..
On the living and the non- living things.
He studied his subject for ages…for the galleries to give a moments gaze..
Well they had nothing new to see….
Portraits, fruits, beggars and the never ending seas..
Perceived by the eyes of this artist..
Who tried to inject some life amidst …our lives..!
To give our minds a chance to survive..

There was another artist..who tried to do something amidst..
His “So called – Paintings”, on shapely shapeless alien things
With colourful blotches here and there…
Giving myriad opinions..no one could share..
Let us see his work out here..! Some would think a coloured elliptical sphere!
Some would see rainbow eyes of a deer!
Some would visualize a distorted Sun!
While some would palate a coloured shapeless bun!
What has the artist to say for himself! !
Self help my friends! Imagine for yourselves!
But if you wanted me frank, open and kind….
I really didn’t have anything in mind…that inspired me..
To this masterpiece..and make such an honorable release..
Of whatever! …I had in mind! Thanks for being so wise, appreciative and kind!

There was yet another one of it’s kind…who never really could find…
Anything to paint at all. So he picked an empty canvas..and fixed it on the wall!
Some called it “The Sound of Silence”, Some called it”The Colourless Essense”
“A Momemtary Lapse of Reason” some said – “That’s how it looks when you are dead”

Vision on man has changed down the ages-and it is obvious from the history pages!
Now we appreciate that work of art-where the brush and the canvas are miles apart!
It is hilarious but it’s true! People are obsessed with anything that’s “New”
Abstract and obscure feel so intellectual! As realities of life still seem unreal!
As the matured infants kept scribbling all day! the “Null and Voids”had nothing to say!
But there was still this artist..
Who keeps on trying to inject some life amidst….his paintings
Of the dead and the dying human beings! !