Of the three young artists who held their "vigorous Strokes" exhibition at the CKP (November 12 to 18), two local participants - Santosh Andani and Narasimha M. Kumbar - showed some involvement in issues and moods of changing contemporary life, its questions of identity, aspiration or memory. They, however, showed also much dependence on well-established idioms not of their own. This was quite visible in the work of the former painter who has considerable skills but looks for formal sources to Mumbai, and in the images of the latter translated in to a slightly vague oscillation between abstraction, design and essentialist figuration. Their colleague from West Bengal, H R Das, proved to be drawing on a more conventional precedent of cutely mannered, ornamental handling of bovine and female shapes against foliage motifs.