This compelling fine art figurative drawing showcases the brilliant political illustration and domestic commentary of contemporary fine artist Megha Joshi within her celebrated From the covid diaries series collection. Executed with fluid watercolor layers delicate ink lines and small solid paint cakes attached to the sheet surface this unique masterpiece serves as a sophisticated diary tracking the psychological weight of the 2020 pandemic isolation. The composition masterfully builds a dense layout framing numerous faceless figures whose countenances are blocked out by sharp microscopic virus shapes in teal emerald and deep red textures. This rich graphic environment balances with a rhythmic border of stamped black bare footprints that cycle around the characters mimicking a repetitive Sisyphean task.
This set of Figurative drawings has been like a Covid-19 diary of one woman and her domestic realm. Simone de Beauvoir, the century's most iconic feminist scholar, called the burden of women's housework a "Sisyphean torture." In her book The Second Sex, she says, "Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: clean becomes dirty, dirty is cleaned, again and again, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she does nothing, she simply perpetuates the present... Eating, sleeping, cleaning: the years no longer soar skyward, they stretch out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and grime is never won." This sort of sums up the inspiration behind these artworks. So there are vegetables, fruits, and flowers, etc., playful battles with the cleaning series, the tragedy of the death of the pigeon in her studio, etc. Each one is a true story.
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Fine Art Figurative Drawing - To Dye or Not To Die, 2020. By Megha Joshi
To Dye or Not To Die, 2020
From the covid diaries series
Watercolour on paper mix media
Dimensions: 16 H x 12 W in.
Signed by the artist
Unframed
Megha Joshi, born 1973, is a contemporary Indian artist. Trained as a sculptor from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University Baroda, India, Joshi worked as a set designer and art director for film and television for 10 years before she quit to return to her fine art practice in 2008. She does scale installations such as with incense sticks for The Sculpture Park Madhavendra Palace, curated by Peter Nagy and cotton wool at the Sandarbh residency, Baroda. Drawing remains a constant in her practice. She has been actively participating in shows in India and abroad and has been invited to art residencies in Budapest, Scotland, Japan and Iceland. Her work has been shown at the India Art Fair almost every year. Her solos include ‘I:Object’ and most recently “Rite of Passage”, 2022-23, held in New Delhi. Her works are in the collection of galleries, institutions and collectors in India and abroad.
