digital, photography, painting, mixed-media, tanjore paintings surrealism traditional photography abstract, traditional painting photography modern painting digital exhibition/performance, Contemporary paintings

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ARTIST STATEMENT, AWARDS, PRESS

Sometimes certain talents can never be taught. It’s an inborn trait some individuals are blessed with. Ever since M.Lokeswara Rao was a little child he had this different inclination towards drawing & sketching. He always had a different way to look into things with an altered perspective with a different perceptive ability. Imagination has no barrier. It is stronger than anything known to man, faster than the speed of light, deeper than the ocean of thoughts. It is the seed for the basic intellect of creativity & innovation. The displayed works are just some mere examples of reinvention of creative bliss. Every work has a deep thought & meaning supporting its visual description. Sri M.Lokeswara Rao belongs to 1983 batch of Indian Forest Service(I.F.S.) based in Bangalore and working as civil Servant He has done many contemporary style paintings like zodiac paintings different Rasis constellations like Aries, Saggitarius, Gemini etc ,Women series he has done paintings on animals and done abstract paintings in digital form. Hehas done nearly hundread paintings using different media on canvas, and paper

He is practicing this ancient art Tanjore paintings for the past several years and contemporary art and digital paintings and he uses poster colors, acrylic and multimedia to do his paintings and do painting on paper and canvas. When he was young he always sees and like the right of colors and glittering Tanjore paintings, he used to surprise how these colorful, glittering paintings were made and other contemporary art paintings and he has internal skills from young age to do paintings He determined to learn these paintings. To fine tune his skills, he went to a teacher and learnt the painting. After wards he developed different fine techniques by meeting people and surfing net. Now he is master in these paintings He has done the big Tanjore painting Butter Krishna and Lakshmi sitting on lotus, other paintings in different sizes Unjal Krishna, Radha Krishna, Yashoda giving fruits to krishna Swing Krishna, Leaf Krishna Bhgavad Geeta, Krishna Geethopadesa. Saibaba, 4x3 feet Balaji and 4x3feet Ganesha etc. The most important famous cartoon movie character Alladin he has done in Tanjore stylein contemporary way, “Alladin flying with Jasmine” he got Artslant show case award. To give tribute to 70 years old famous cartoon character Tom and Jerry, he has painted “Tom and Jerry celebrating Christmas” in Tanjore style.

He got award from Art slant Showcase Award for his painting Aladdin. He has done exhibition in recent chitra santhe and many people appreciated his works and surprising how a busy buracart takes time and support for the cause and make art Mr Rao is also photographer and takes clicks from street scene, nature, daily life, life style etc Mr. Rao is also author of books, his famous book “Plant biodiversity of world” is based on Stamps collected by him and arranged based on Plant classification wise. He is participate in various environmental awareness programmes. He is exhibiting his works in Art slant and Rise art of UK online galleries. His parents and family inspires him

Qualifications: Indian forest Service

Forms of art I create: Tanjore paintings Contemporary arts Photography Digital acrylic media and mixed media

Exhibitions

National:

Karnataka Chitra Santhe 2011(Karnataka Chitra Kala Parishad, Bangalore)

Karnataka Chitra Santhe 2012(Karnataka Chitra Kala Parishad, Bangalore)

Karnataka chitra Santhe 2013(Karnataka Chitra Kala Parishad, Bangalore)

All India Exhibition by Hyderabad Art Society 2012 4th National Exhibition of Art by INFAC(Indian National forum of Art and Culture), Bangalore 2012

Art slant, Gallery, U.S.A.

Rise art gallery, U.K.

Fine Art America

Zodiac exhibition at Rasa Gallery Bangalore

Renaissance Gallery Bangalore

Rainbow solo show State fine arts gallery , Hyderabad.

Buddha the Great solo show Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore, 2012

and many more

International:

Space inno Gallery,SouthKorea

New Age Inn, Bangkok

Awards and Appreciations

1. Art slant (USA)Showcase Award 2010 for his painting Aladdin.
2. Appreciation Chitra Santhe exhibition organised by Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad , Bangalore. 2011/12
3. Art Majeur Silver Award 2010
4. Art Majeur Silver Award 2011
5. Limited edition of selection of work for Miami Show 2010 By Art Slant
6. Artslant 3rd show case award for his mixed media work Radha Krishna
7. Art Slant”s Most Popular Emerging Artist
8. Appreciation Chitra Santhe exhibition organised by Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad , Bangalore. 2012
9. Universal Linkages painting selected for 4th All India Exhibition of Art, 2012 by INFAC
10. Buddha with Lotus painting selected for All India Exhibition 2012 by Hyderabad Art Society, Hyderabad.