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Monographs are pronounced in their biographical nature and this book on Sunil Das, authored by art critic Manasij Majumder, primarily chronicles the life-experiences of the artist, his movement in time and space, and provides evidence of how his art responded to the unique moments and situations that have until now marked his distinct and individual life. All the nodal points that map Sunil Das's journey within and outside India have been marked/scrutinised by ...
Launching his creative career in the late '50s, Bikash Bhattacharjee stood out among his contemporaries by making hardedged chiseled realism the core appeal of his canvases when realism or naturalism of every shade was considered a retrograde trend. Bikash's strengths were his exceptional technical mastery and his power to charge the tangible appearance of the surface with the reality of the depth beneath. He was admired not merely for the near-illusionist ...
The present writer had many occasions to watch Amitabha at work while preparing his plates. Patience and hard thinking backed by a desire to avoid easy solutions seemed to be his motto. Lines and tones played an important part in the shapes of images on his plates. The fragile quality of lines added to the poetic quality of imageries. The dark and light areas were worked out with extreme care in which multiple tones were created; thus making the entire plate rich ...