PAGE FOUR CITY. MID-DAY, April 4, 1988 A quest for liberation By Our Art Critic You don't have to necessarily go to some art college or any other in- stitution to learn the subtleties of the medium of painting. All that ‘you need iS a sensitive heart and ‘and an irresistible urge to expressits feolings on the canvas, This fact is ‘amply demonstrated by Meena, a sel-taught painter, whose second ‘one-woman show begins today at Gallery Aurobindo. Talking about her 15 paintings and four sketches entitled “Con- straint” which are on display there, she says “my” paintings are an ef- fort to break away from one’s own being and limitations while under- going the pangs of agony and de- spair. She adds these are “constant efforts toshope 10 rise and to achieve olive.” Married to an advertising entre- preneur, Meena hails from Nainitat and did her graduation from IT Col- lege, Lucknow. Later she did a ‘Meena with her husband. textile designing course in Delhi in 1977 and presently assists her hus- band in running his agency called “Bhumika Advertising”, Though Meena tive paintings “con: ing female nudes in various kinetic Positions, they in fact express per- hapsa strong urge to liberate oneself from the clutches of this materialis= tieworld. There is a clear suggestion of the “Dance of Joy” in most of her works. What particularly attracts in her paintings is-the lyrical and melodious movements’ of her sub- jects. All of her works are in oils.