Gogi Saroj Pal is an eminent
contemporary female artist from
India. She was born in Neoli, a small
sub-urban area in the Indian state of
Uttar Pradesh. She is a charismatic
personality, and hails from an illustrious
family, where her grandmother was
a social worker, and father was a
freedom fighter. Her recent paintings
exclusively have female protagonists
who celebrate their sexuality. Her
artistic voyage has been filled with
a fantastic amalgamation of Hindu
mythology, and her imagination. Her
most depicted subject is women, which
indicates her feministic encounters in
modern Indian paintings. Thus, some
questions related to her paintings have
been prepared by the author to figure
out the essence of her approach in
paintings. According to Pal, painting is
a bio-product but it has its own identity,
in regards of theme, composition,
structure, and so on. She further added
that painting, or any produced work,
is not the property of the artists or
individuals, but it is the property of
the civilization. The meaning of the
painting should be conveyed to satisfy
or approach its universal spectators
rather than an individual one. Art as
a serious engagement demands lots of
energy and commitment. In response
to the question regarding the role of
woman in ancient Indian painting, it
is stated by Pal that women in ancient
Indian paintings have been depicted
according to the status of the society,
and when society developed, depiction
of women also improved and got more
liberal. Mythological aspects, societal
values and other factors were also
instrumental and influential in the
changing representation of woman in
Indian paintings.