What we produce in art should be a pure fusion of sensation and reason, a reasoned emotion. It should be reasonable wisdom. I don't believe it is feasible without initially putting emotional interest first, and there's no doubt that Nawal Kishor’s art is primarily driven by emotion.
In his paintings and drawings, he creates the emotional side of various situations of life as an observer as if he is involved in them. We consider the picture as an artificial expression of the real world, in which the artist has planted feelings. Naval uses such a color scheme for this, which communicates positive energy toward life in the viewers. That is why he uses red, yellow, blue, and brown colors more here, as well as he combines the negative space in the painting in such a way that it becomes easier for the viewer to focus on the picture and its central subject.
Nawal did a lot of wash paintings at the collage time and after that also. It’s no doubt that he has a good command of the wash technique, but he left it, and it is a great loss of Indian art. But on another side, a good thing happened also, and that is that he uses the wash effect in his later creation. Mediums have their limitation; acrylic colors can create transparency but they are not capable to create a wash effect. So Nawal has a choice to use more and more transparency to get a wash effect in paintings, for that he works layer by layer. Even the composition of his early paintings gives a feeling of wash paintings.
He focused on ‘Nayika’ and other subjects in wash paintings but when he starts on canvas, he started to explore the spirituality in life, and for that, he chooses the Buddha, Krishna, and Ganesha. He chooses a different color palette for that, mostly different tones of a single color, or using two colors from one family. He uses both warm and cool colors at that time, but after that, his color palette changed or we can say it become more mature.
After exploring spirituality for a long time, he starts to explore other parts of life. He understands that spirituality is the only part of life so he starts to explore other parts of life. He starts to search for every aspect of beauty in life, both social acts and personal relations. All the relations and emotions, that make life possible and beautiful, take a different meaning in his creations.
In the early paintings, he follows the all norms of figurative paintings and creates more and more realistic images. Slowly-slowly he developed his form and gives them a more artistic effect. He gives a little touch of abstraction to the human form but still, they are human forms with perfect anatomy. Sometimes he adds two or more hades to a single body and sometimes attached bodies to show the spirit of life.
But that is not the end of his artistic quest; it is beginning, to enter in a new artistic approach. Today, there are many artists how to get inspiration from traditional art, Nawal among them, the difference is that he adopts stylized concepts only. He incorporates two faces in one body and uses human postures in outfits. It’s a regular practice in folk art to paint figures in or on one figure. Nawal studied that carefully and use this technique in a modern way. He stylizes it not only as decorative cloths but a stylized expression also, which makes his art more effective. He learns that from his ‘guru’ well-known artist Neeraj Goswamy. Neeraj is known for his rhythmic form and colors which inspired Nawal very much.
One more thing in his paintings is notable, and that is the texture quality in the background. In each painting, he creates different abstract textures in the background, which gives a pleasant feeling. That abstract quality is also present in his paper works. He did a lot of drawings and paintings on paper. In some of them, he gives an abstract effect to some parts of the human body, even abstractly divided space also. He is in the middle of his artistic journey and makes an identity. He is a promising artist and hopes he breaks her limitations and explores unlimited possibilities of art.
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