" Unadulterated Simplicity" Armaan 

About" Unadulterated Simplicity" 

Sunlight is said to be white, and hence is the purest of all, giving life and sustenance to all it touches. It is positive energy and the artist has captured the unadulterated simplicity of the women by ‘dressing’ them in the white traditional attire. There is nothing complicated about the painting but the artist is probably touching on the symbolism of white attire that is forced upon widows.

In this context white symbolizes infertility, asceticism, old age, and death in solitude. It is possibly a commentary against the regressive social customs that force women to dress in white upon losing their husband to death. It is possibly a question on the characterization of widowed women, and hence is significant, unique, and admirable.