Natakam or Puppet Show Painting

Vass is thankful to his father Sri Koppada Venugopalam who gave him life, art and wisdom. His mother Smt. Mangatayaru who gave him immense love and affection.His work appears spontaneous, yet the playfulness is assertively controlled. It is a double edged stock of a passionate painter in love with the process of painting and the necessity to give form to the psycho visual activity that happens in his self. The paintings of Vass do not fall in the category of “Abstract” as most of them are Representational, Semi-figurative and Expressionistic. As the free-style treatment of the surface and application of tonalities with subdued hues occupy the vast areas of the visual space, it evokes a sense of Abstraction. However, he makes a conscious challenge to recapture the sense of ambiguity employing both representative and non representative devices. Just like his favourite artist Francis Newton Souza, the formalistic disposition of the body of works predictably brings forth a voluntary mode of expressing meaning inhibited in its hidden structure/signification.