Contemporary Creative, Israfil Ridhwan

For a young artist, Ridhwan’s art portrays maturity through a mixture of intense colours, emotive subject matter and dramatic figural forms. His arts are mostly Neo-expressionism and figurative work. His work depicts societal issues and day to day living with emphasis on the emotion of the figural forms. His work ‘Don’t Blame the Devil for you Lust’ shows how he has intertwined various interpretations of lust, through both feminine and masculine figures. He depicted the devil using a snake which has been an ancient symbol of evil. Lust has always been negatively perceived by societal norms and individuals who portray lust are seen as evil and through his work he has managed to achieve this. Lust often leads to pain, and he has successfully depicted this through his work. For his work on ‘The Sun also Rises for Those who Fail the Call’, he attempted to address the LGBT issues that are current i.e., by addressing the stigma that individuals who are curious about their sexuality are often seen as failures in the eyes of a conservative society and by including the sun rising, he has shown that there is still hope for them, probably depicting that now, the likelihood of acceptance from society is possible. He has also taken time to show the hardships of the characters in his work, showing the agony of each of them through their ordeal despite being strong men. <a href="https://medium.com/@2204259b/contemporary-creative-israfil-ridhwan-ef9bf6334503">Click Here</a>