Visakhapatnam artist Moka Vijay Kumar has etched his identify into the India Guide of Data 2024 as an IBR Achiever (for distinctive and noteworthy feats). He bagged the title for making 50 work of well-known personalities.
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Visakhapatnam artist Moka Vijay Kumar has etched his identify within the India Guide of Data 2024 as an IBR Achiever (for distinctive and noteworthy feats). He bagged the title for making 50 work of well-known personalities together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the late APJ Abdul Kalam utilizing millets. The certificates was issued earlier this month. Every portrait is a labour of affection, requiring hours of analysis, sketching and meticulous brushwork.
Vijay Kumar has been practising millet artwork for almost three years and has to date created greater than 300 artwork works utilizing the grains. “Via my work, I wish to create consciousness about socially-relevant points whereas additionally highlighting the dietary advantages of millets,” he provides. The artist not too long ago offered his portray to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu in Amaravati.
His millet paintings was showcased on the G20 summit in Visakhapatnam, Telangana, and Delhi, and was offered to agriculture ministers from 38 nations. Certainly one of his newest works addressing girls’s security and societal considerations following the current tragedy in West Bengal has introduced his artwork right into a extra impactful realm.
“I all the time needed my artwork to be extra than simply faces; I wish to inform tales, evoke feelings and make folks take into consideration the world round them,” says Vijay Kumar.
Revealed – September 20, 2024 07:12 am IST
