Paintings
David Kandalkar explained that "Abstract art comes out of the virtual disappearance of the recognizable." So his abstract paintings, one may call "abstract subjective", live out of opposites in life and nature. Not only contrast in colour, but natural and artificial, nature and culture, order and disorder, organis and anorganic, positive and negative energy, hamony and diharmony. If one pays attention one sees geometric elements run into dynamic informal brushstrokes. Precise elements are contrasted with diffused elements and the dialectics of rigidity and informal movement dominate the theme on the canvas. For some it is not enough geometric, for others it is not enough informal. The fact is that he has achieved an artistic symbiosis which is selfexplanatory.Paralel to abstract painting David Kandalkar paints what one may call semifigurativ paintings about nature, as they are not naturalistic, but inspired of nature."Nature is there in all its Glory so why compete with it", as canvas is a flat surface - two dimensional- the backgrounds are painted with layers of translucent colours. The objects are opague and this gives the painting different depths- three dimensional optical illusion. The general affect is - one sees the paintings at eye level and at some time from birds eye view.