| George Keyt 1901 - 1993  Publication documents the leading evaluations
of his art by critics far placed as Europe the Indian Sub-Continent and South America
also contains important contributions
made by the artist in a different medium
the artist's pre-occupation with the
Buddhist renaissance in the nineteen twenties led to the poems, essays and stories
inspired by Buddhist teachings
interest in Indian philosophy and
hinduism led to a strong poetic phase and a striking and exuberant efflorescene of his
painting
and then followed the magnificent
rendering into English of Jayadeva's Gita Govinda and the very sensitive drawings for this
love poem
A Bio-Bibliography 1923 - 1988 which
covers most of his life details the writings on George Keyt and almost as many writings by
him
There is also a Descriptive List of
Catalogues of his Exhibitions from 1947 to 1988. Several of then outside Sri Lanka
in Bombay, Delhi and London. His work has also been in Exhibitions in many other
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From Catalogues and Reviews George Keyt, who,
if his work was known here, would surely be recognized as an artist of important genius.
- Foreword to the catalogue by John Berger
'43 Group Exhibition
Imperial Institute Art Galleries - London 1952
Keyt, I think, is the living nucleus of a greater painter. Magically though he
places his colours, and carefully though he distributes his plastic volumes, Keyt's
pictures nevertheless produce a dramatic effect particularly in his paintings of Sinhalese
people. These figures take on a strange expressive grandeur, and radiate an aura of
intensely profound feelings.
- Pablo Neruda
The Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet 1930
...I have looked among the contemporaries for one of those whom I could place proudly
in the front frank of world art. And you were the only one whom I could honestly
present to my own eyes as of their rank.
- Mulk Raj Anand, Chairman Lalit Kala Academy New Delhi
Distinguished Author, Organiser of Triennale Exhibition
...style which becomes the hallmark of genius ... art of emotional exuberance
miraculously held in balance by a craftsmanship that always retain its control.
- Nissim Ezekiel - Eminent Poet and Art Critic
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