Entry for January 22, 2007

ART SUNDAY

Ah, after so long time I am posting ART SUNDAY. As you know (should I say the whole yahoo 360 got to know now… LOL) that I don’t have broadband connection so it is really difficult for me to search & write the blog as I used to write. I am feeling little guilty about spending so much money of my hubby dear on this internet connection... But still this copy paste blog for you as a ONE MORE PEARL from our treasure! Artists from WEST BENGAL, it’s capital city is Calcutta ( old name) & new name is Kolkata, where Mother Teresa used to live.

Artist Chanchal Mukherjee's world is one of shadows and light, of fantasy and fact, of dreams and ethereal beauty. Many of his paintings focus on delicately drawn faces with large, expressive eyes. Chanchal Mukherjee has exhibited widely in India and is in the collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art and Lalit Kala Akademi in New Delhi, the Karnataka Chitra Kala Parishad and the Birla Academy of Fine Arts in Calcutta. He is also in private collections in the United States and Japan including that of the Glenbara Foundation.

My second artist is Paresh Maity, who is also from West Bengal. Paresh Maity was born in Tarnluk. West Bengal in 1965. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata and his Master's Degree from the College of Art, Delhi. He has participated in a number of group exhibitions in India and at international venues, including the Cleveland International Drawing Biennale (1995). Maity's works can be seen in the collections of the British Museum, the ARKS Gallery in London and the National Gallery of Modem Art in New Delhi. He has received a number of awards, including the award for the best watercolor painting from the Government of Bengal and the All India Fine Arts Society. Presently, Maity lives and works in Delhi. Posting here 6 paintings, which I liked, in my short cut surfing LOL. I hope you will also like this. And below I have given the link, where you can see these paintings in full as well as other brilliant artists from my country! So have a look… HAPPY ART SUNDAY TO ALL OF YOU! HUGS.

SOURCE OF THIS BLOG :

http://www.indianartworld.com/view_artistwork.aspx?id=55&menu=5

http://www.indianartworld.com/view_artistwork.aspx?id=73&menu=5

Entry for December 16, 2006

ART SUNDAY

Hello Buddies, today I thought enough of showing only a small pebble from Indian shore. I must show, who has inspired that pebble (Pink, of course! ) to take paintbrush in hands. YES, the precious Pearl from India, whom I have already introduced you before. But since my list (of friends’) has many new faces so here is little introduction of the ARTIST called M.F. Hussain.

A self-taught artist, Muqbool Fida Hussain was born in 1915 in Maharashtra. At an early age he learnt the art of calligraphy and practiced the Kulfic khat with its geometric forms. He also learnt to write poetry while staying with an uncle in a madrasa in Baroda, an art that has stayed with him through his life. His early education was perfunctory but Hussain's love of drawing was evident even at this stage. Whenever he got a chance he would strap his painting gear to his bicycle and drive out to the surrounding countryside of Indore to paint the landscape. In 1937 he reached Mumbai determined to become an artist, with hardly any money and lived m a cheap room in a by lane inhabited by pimps and prostitutes. Initially Hussain apprenticed himself to a painter of cinema hoardings, which he would paint with great dexterity perched on scaffolding sometimes in the middle of traffic.

These are paintings by him called "BAGHDAD SERIES"

Hussain was noticed for the first time in 1947 when he won an award at the annual exhibition of the Bombay Art Society. Subsequently he was invited by Souza to join the Progressive Artist's Group. A great deal of experimentation in the early years led to some remarkable works Re Between The Spider And The Lamp, Zameen and Man. By 1955 he was one of the leading artists in India and had been awarded the Padma Shri. He was a special invitee along with Pablo Picasso at the Sao Paulo Biennial in 1971. Along with several solo exhibitions he had major retrospectives in Mumbai in 1969, in Calcutta in 1973 and in Delhi in 1978. He has participated in many international shows which include Contemporary Indian Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1982; Six Indian Painters, Tate Gallery, London 1985; Modem Indian Painting, Hirschhom Museum, Washington 1986 and Contemporary Indian Art, Grey Art Gallery, New York 1986.

In 1967 he won the Golden Bear at the International Film Festival at Berlin for his documentary \u201c Through the Eyes of a Painter \u201d and has made several short films since then. Hussain was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1973, the Padma Vibhushan in 1989 and was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1986. One of the most charismatic artists in India today, he is known for his emphatic understanding of the human situation and his speedy evocation of it in paint. The early evolution of his painterly language was overtaken by adventurous forays into installations and performance art. His experimentations with new forms of art are both unexpected and pioneering. Hussain has studios in several cities in India but lives mainly in Mumbai.

LATEST UPDATE : M.F.Hussain is now living at Dubai, UAE. It\u2019s a kind of self-exile, because few radicals (basically political) have filed cases against his nude-paintings of Hindu Goddesses. His (all religion) friends from ART fraternity are asking people to come out in his support & stop these political games against him because he is a Muslim painter. His friends have some points like \u20131. Those paintings are almost 30 years old & cases are filed against him recently. 2. He never had given names to his nude-paintings, people gave it. 3. There are nude sculptures of Gods & Goddesses of Hindu religion, at many places in India. His ART friends have urged that at the age of 90, Hussain should be called back to his own country & all cases filed against him should be withdrawn. Let us see what future brings for M.F.HUSSAIN...

Entry for October 15, 2006

ART SUNDAY

One more pearl from India…

 

Artist : Sunil Das

 

About the Artist Sunil Das : -  Born in 1939, Kolkata

Education: Govt. College of Arts & Crafts, Kolkata; Ecole Nationale Superior de Beaux Arts, Paris Exhibitions · 88 Solos in India & Abroad · 364 Group shows in India &

Abroad Awards · 15 in India & Abroad

Founder member of Society of Contemporary Artists

 

"Sunil Das is one of the giants of India 's contemporary art scene. The many dimensions of his talent are best viewed through the eyes and minds of eminent contemporaries and critics, and of those who have known him well. “I for one, have always been impressed by Sunil's adventurous attitude towards his work, which has always prompted him to try out new ideas, new techniques and new styles … His most remarkable works revolve around the theme of a) man-woman relationships, b) woman in her sexual empowerment, and c) in her loneliness … I have always been haunted by the mysterious looking women who frequently appear on Sunil's canvases. Their eyes shine like two gems from the infinite darkness of their sockets. Their faces painted in white against a white background, framed by dark flowing hair and their bodies endowed with all the attributes of the female figure … leave an indelible impression upon (the viewer's) mind.”  --- Paritosh Sen.

 

 

“Even today his horse compositions are spectacular, the result of a painstaking commitment since his student days, when he drew more than 5000 mood pictures of these magnificent animals giving his canvases a sense of speed and movement that had a staggering effect. It went on to fetch him a National Award when he was only a third year student at Art College .” Swapan Mullick “As an avant garde painter he is not afraid to experiment: ‘I use any material that appeals to me, thread, lac, gauze, vegetable dyes and burnt plastic' … by his choice and arrangement of visual images and materials the artist offers a way of ordering the flux of experience … the best art floats an atmosphere of infinite suggestion … “Sunil Das' large canvases, with their stunning graphics, exquisite color, and even the empty spaces, can hit the viewer between the eyes … ‘His art is Yeats' art of the whole man … blood, imagination, intellect running together … the fury and the mire of human veins, the foul rag and bone shop and man's blood sodden heart" ---- Nina De

 

 

“It is perhaps the grandeur of his vision that transfigures every image that he creates, whether figurative or abstract … it is this grandeur that created the cult of his horse studies … (it) is not something that only permeates his vibrant studies of bulls and horses, it also strikes one in his drawings of refugees at Sealdah Station, and lights the eyes of the ‘0' and abused women prostitutes whose humanity humbles one. Indeed his drawings are not easy to emulate. They have a profound authenticity in both time and feeling. He explains this, ‘I give you new eyes, the eyes with which you can see the new aspect of time'… (but) adds another rider, ‘I give you new eyes, the eyes with which you can see yourself.' And you suddenly awaken to the fact that the new aspect of time is yourself. Every moment you are growing. Every moment you are changing. The ‘you' of yesterday is not the ‘you' of today; but you are not some rootless flotsam. You are part of that great entity: humanity. And its whole history belongs to you visually through his drawings. “He is not on a quest to ferret out time from dredged out memories. His past serves to define the future but not limit it. This can be seen in the way he threads his manner from the representational – a horse, a bull, a face, an eye, a hand, a beak, a claw – to the twilight zone of signs, and then on to the liberty of strokes, blots and smudges that are cathartic.” ---- Suneet Chopra 

 

 

 

 

Source : Internet (All pics & information. )