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Festival
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| Size | : 36" x 36" |
| Medium | : Acrylic |
| Surface | : Canvas |
| Frame | : Included in the price |
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Festival is a 36" x 36" acrylic original by artist Harshada Kolapkar, posing four women in a loose, playful cluster, each wearing a different pair of novelty sunglasses — heart-shaped, star-shaped, and mismatched colored frames — against a corrugated metal shutter as a backdrop.
One woman crouches at the lower left in patterned gold fabric, resting her chin in her hand; the other three stand close together above her, one covering her mouth mid-laugh, the others posed more directly toward the viewer, all four dressed in richly patterned sarees in blue, white, pink, and gold that catch the same warm light.
The shutter behind them is where Kolapkar puts the painting's second layer of humor: faint, sketched faces are painted directly onto the corrugated metal, each one also wearing sunglasses, along with a basket, a pair of antennae, and a stray pair of stars, turning the background into its own quiet gallery of onlookers watching the group in front of them.
The ridged texture of the shutter is rendered in cool grey-blue horizontal bands, a controlled, repetitive pattern that sets off the warmer, more varied patterning of the women's clothing in front of it, giving the whole canvas a clear division between foreground life and background memory.
Kolapkar keeps the mood light and unposed — a stolen moment of dress-up and photo-taking rather than a formal group portrait — consistent with her recurring interest in women caught mid-gesture rather than formally arranged for the canvas, laughing at something just outside the frame, the kind of moment a camera catches by accident rather than on cue, before anyone has had time to compose themselves for a portrait.
This is a hand-painted acrylic original on canvas, not a reproduction. The sketched figures on the shutter are easy to miss on a first look and reward a second, slower pass across the surface.
Festival sits alongside pieces like Sound in Kolapkar's Guest Artist collection, sharing her recurring cast of women in patterned sarees and her interest in a background that quietly comments on the figures in front of it. Its square format suits a kitchen, veranda, or any casual gathering space where its light mood fits naturally into the room.
Once the faces on the shutter register, the painting becomes less about four women posing and more about a whole street corner joining in on the same joke.
