Author · India

Shankar Pamarthy

5 editions · 8 works

Shankar Pamarthy - 3 March 1963 Shankar Pamarthy was born in Nalgonda, of newly formed Telangana state. He never studied academic art but admired fine arts right from his childhood and began doodling at the age of ten years. Soon after his graduation, he started working as a drawing teacher and later on, he moved to the capital city of Hyderabad at the age of 28 in order to shape his career as a journalist/political cartoonist and joined in a leading vernacular daily magazine called Vaartha and later worked for another daily Andhrajyothi. He is presently working at Sakshi, a reputed vernacular daily. Shankar’s association with artists, journalists and media enabled him to hone his intellect and persona. A fine quality of colour pencil rendering is dexterously done by fragmenting and mutilating but with accurate characteristic features, as the physiognomies evidently show a faultless visualization of the gifted artist. He does not believe in any sort of stereotypical exaggeration instead captures the soul of the character with a distinct style that he developed over the years. The forms transgress the idea of provocation, satire and criticism as they are pretty, adorable and thoughtful depictions of reality. Thus, deliberately abstracting the realistic forms and leaving straightforward clues to recognize the portraiture. At times, he challenges the light hearted viewers inviting them into a puzzle of creation and recreation and cherishes these witty moments.Read more