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Art
Gallery
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SOHAN QADRI
The narrowness of space has posed as a great problem to me. I have only two hands, this also is a handicap. I want to paint on the sky - across the sky - on the surfaces unknown to human perception, with fifteen hundred hands, all faithful to me. Phenomenal life can hardly be lived within a few known dimensions.
-- Sohan Qadri, 1965 --
Sohan Qadri’s paintings can be characterised as basically monochrome surfaces with structural effects, which convey impressions of a loaded silence in a synthesis of emptiness and peace, radiating silence.
Space
for Sohan
Qadri is
endless.
The
vibrations
are
continuous.
If they
assume
rhythmic
expression
in colour
energies,
then they
are
symbolic
of other
vibrations
in other
spaces,
outside
the
canvas.
The
microcosm
reflects
the
dialectic
of
struggle
in the
macrocosm.The
inner
space
registers
conflict
of mood
versus
emotion
and
emotion
versus
feeling.
The
experiencer
of spaces
seeks to
become
experience
itself,
breaking
new ground
and
dimension
in the
subtle
areas of
sensibility,
where
insights
grow into
light.The
drama is
in moments
of time,
chosen
from the
endless
time, to
be enacted
in endless
space
Mulk Raj
Anand
Sohan Qadri with his painting liberates the word meditation from its fashionable taste and brings it back to its proper origin, uninfluenced by Western propaganda, misunderstandings and corruption.
Heinrich Boll (Nobel Prize winner)
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KOH-1-NOOR
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3) THE STAR OF AFRICAThe largest stone cut from the Cullinan and now among the British Crown Jewels. It weighs 530.20 carats and has 74 facets and is still the largest cut diamond in the world. |
7) THE IDOL'S EYEA
flattened
pear
shaped
stone
the
size
of
a
bantam's
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8) THE REGENTA truly historic diamond discovered in 1701 by an Indian slave near Golconda, it weighed 410 carats in the rough. Once owned by William Pitt, the English Prime Minister, it was cut into a cushion shaped brilliant of 140.50 carats, and until it was sold to the Duke of Orleans, Regent of France when Louis XV wore at his coronation. After the French revolution, it was owned by Napoleon Bonaparte who set it in the hilt of his sword. It is now on display in the Louvre. |
9) THE BLUE HOPEMore notorious than any other diamond, The Hope was once owned by Louis XIV and was officially designated 'the blue diamond of the crown'. Stolen during the French revolution, it turned up in London in 1830 and was bought by Henry Phillip Hope after whom it is currently named. It was while the diamond was in the possession of the Hope family that it aquired its gruesome reputation for bad luck. All his family died in poverty. A.similar misfortune befell a later owner, Mr. Edward Mclean. It is now in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. |
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10) THE SANCYIt weighed 55 carats and was cut in a pear shape. It was first owned by Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, who lost it in battle in 1477. The stone is in fact named after a late owner, Seigneur de Sancy, a French Ambassador to Turkey in the late 16th century. He loaned it to the French king, Henry III who wore it in the cap with which he concealed his baldness. Henry IV of France also borrowed the stone from Sancy, but it was sold in 1664 to James I of England. In 1688, James II, last of the Stuart kings of England, fled with it to Paris. It disappeared during the French revolution. |
11) TAYLOR- BURTON69.42 carats. This pear-shaped diamond was sold at auction in 1969 with the understanding that it could be named by the buyer. Cartier of New York successfully bid for it and immediately christened it "Cartier". However, the next day Richard Burton bought the stone for Elizabeth Taylor for an undisclosed sum, renaming it the "Taylor-Burton". It made its debut at a charity ball in Monaco in mid November where Miss Taylor wore it as a pendant. In 1978, Elizabeth Taylor announced that she was putting it up for sale and planned to use part of the proceeds to build a hospital in Botswana. Just to inspect the diamond, prospective buyers had to pay $2,500 to cover the cost of showing it. In June 1979 it was sold for nearly $3 million and was last reported to be in Saudi Arabia. |
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12) HORTENSIA
This peach colored stone of 20 carats was named after Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, who was Josephine's daughter and the step-daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte. The Hortensia had been part of the French Crown Jewels since Louis XIV bought it. Along with the Regent it is now on display in the Louvre, Paris. |
