Since many years, painting and artistry sectors have witnessed a large number of unique pieces of arts created and designed by famous artists across the world. In this article, painting lovers will come to know about KR Santhana Krishnan, a famous artist, who has dedicated his last 18 years by creating about 800 different paintings with a single theme i.e. doors. However, he used various sub-themes under the common doors theme i.e. half-shut doors, closed doors and partially open doors. Particularly, the artist Krishnan often paints doors by using glowing yellow or luminous bright blue color.
History behind Krishnan’s Fascination for Doors
Santhana Krishnan’s fascination for doors takes back to his childhood and his student days, which he spent in Kombakonam. He grown up in a traditional agraharam of Brahmins and spent many years. During this time, he pondered on varying worlds, which existed behind different doors.
The way, in which light beams fall on threshold, application of materials and color combinations for walls and doors and similar others have tales narrating any particular house, homeowners and their individual lifestyles.
If this is not enough, Krishnan found myriad tales from exterior areas or surfaces of homes’ doors to come up with wide varieties of paintings, including the famous painting of Doors of Perception by Santhana Krishnan. Until now, he has thirty-two different artworks available at Art Smart Galley of Thiruvananthapuram, all of which take us towards the unique thresholds world.
Specialties of Wooden Model Doors, Inner Spaces and Half-Open Door Paintings
A few paintings made by KR Santhana Krishnan are of acrylic type on canvas, while others have paintings on doors’ wooden models complete with locking systems, which exactly highlight the entrances found in homes located in different regions of South India.
On the other side, a few artworks associated with Doors of Perception by Santhana Krishnan reveals the inner spaces of houses in Bikaner and Jaipur of Rajasthan. Each of his artwork highlights the wide-eyed curiosity and wonder of any particular artist, as he intends to glimpse of the human life that lies behind doors. Attention given to even minute details make his works colorful documentations of varying lifestyles followed by people in different regions of India.
Other than this, a few of his paintings highlighted half-open doors, which lead viewers towards the scenes framed with the help of doors. He often used Tulsi tharas in the inner courtyards, kerosene lamps, milk cans, clothes drying and wooden boxes, all of which give clues about inhabitants of such homeowners or residents.