Creative Frequency
Writing about Modern Art, Trewin Copplestone scripted, “The quality of art depends upon the quality of the artist who produces it.” I think apart from natural endowments and the skill of an artist, his dedication to his art certainly became his way of life. This is what matters for an observer to be fair and serious in viewing the paintings and sculptures in the expo at Palm Court Gallery by six accomplished artists.
Swapnesh Chowdhury, Debasis Bhattacharya, Hareet Basu, Chaitali Chanda, Biplab Sarkar and Kishore Shanker get together to mount an exhibition of their creative endeavor at PCG Habitat Centre.
One of the senior artists Swapnesh Chowdhury proficient in Mural Paintings displays a strong sense of composition in his deftly executed mural-like painting ‘Homage to Picasso’. With the symmetrical placement of simplified figurative components, he successfully accentuates a kingly figure with a crown in the central block of the composition. Another senior artist Debasis Bhattacharya in his painting ‘Ropeway’ successfully tries the peculiarity of idea and Image. The two vertical abstract headless human figures against a horizontal female form are well integrated in the entire picture plane. A stripe in white running from the hair to the right side and then turning up at the right angle and reaching the shoulder of the right side figure is perfectly balanced in relation the left side vertical elements. The overall effect is the expression of the mute language of the heart in abstraction.
Hareet Basu uses visual language directly in his impressionistic depiction. He touches on the burning issue of the environment. The white flowers painted all over the fore and middle ground of the picture plane against the pale green and dark background with little empty patches on the top indeed give a pleasant feeling to the viewers. Unlike Hareet, Kishore Shankar is strictly abstract in his painting ‘Dissolving Rainbow’. He uses bright colors in his central fugal painting. In the center he uses bold and strong red color with streaks of green and little blue. Around the central elements, he covers the entire canvas with bold patches of white ochre and gray creating a highly vibrating effect. Indeed it is an exalting abstraction.
Among the group, Biplab Sarkar and Chaitali Chanda ramps in with their competent metal sculptures. Biplab in his sculpture ‘Bird’ expresses the natural instinct of motherhood. A bird feeding its infants gives the feel of motion as if it has swiftly swung down vertically onto its nest with feed for its little ones. A well-executed sculpture in form and content is superb. The grace of the group Chitali Chanda successfully executes the rhythmic flow in her creation ‘Human Figures’. The female form in dance-like posture is being clamped by the male figure integrating the cathartic expression in the totality of the image. It is beautiful.
The accomplished artists’ presentations need to be watched with empathy.
Roop Chand, Chairman-National Art Centre, Gurgaon
16 May 2010
