Mr. Subrata Ghosh   

Kolkata, India

Works of Subrata

Overview:

Subrata Ghosh, the young artist, tries to touch temporality from the perspective of timelessness. The enlightened heritage of Indian classical art inspires him and helps him to build up his own idiom. He looks back towards the grand tradition of our painting and sculpture of classical era. The tranquility with the divinity of the Ajanta figuration and Gupta sculpture makes some imprint in his delineation of form. He imbibes robustness, illusion of three dimensionality from these classical traditional sources and induces a kind of sobriety through duality of light and shade in his figuration. The echo of idyllic elements also reverberates in his works. He also induces decorativeness from traditional sources. The floral elements, rhythmic plants and creepers, flying birds decorate the tranquil faces or figures in his paintings with the message of ideal or divine contemplation. His paintings, especially of this present series, are therefore rare examples of the assimilation of the two opposing trends or attitude to life, that is classicism and romanticism. In tranquility and meditativeness, in depicting the divine values of an enlightened and celebrated culture, in connecting his visual elements with the ‘timelessness’ he imbibes classical sensibility, where as in decorativeness, in transcending dry rationality towards an ethereal emotiveness his works posit a tendency of romanticism. With these elements of ‘timelessness’ he tries to touch or project, albeit very subtly and indirectly, the values of ‘temporality’. To him the time present is a time of strife and discordance, of anarchy and violence, violence towards life also towards nature and environment. His paintings grow out of a rebellion against these decaying values. He tries to posit an ideal to negate this decay, this human frailty that the civilization is engulfed with. He has worked in acrylic on canvas. He applies color layer after layer to arrive at his own chromatic structure, where white with little shade of yellow, cream and light grey gets prominence. This color scheme helps him to create an environment of idyllic tranquility. His subjects are various, mythical, religious and secular expressing various shades of life. In ‘Nirvana’ he depicts the face of Buddha in classical style. In ‘Mahamaya’ he paints in semi-profile the face of the divine lady. ‘Tejaswini’ also reflects the image of Goddess Durga. ‘Eternal Love’ is an image of eternal mother and child where the mother holds on her lap a child with a pachydermic head like Ganesha of Hindu mythology. ‘Silent Love’ is the image of a beautiful lady depicted in idealized naturalistic form seated with a bunch of lotus buds in her hand. ‘Rhythm’ depicts the mythical theme of Radha Krishna. Apart from these myth oriented subjects there are also works of non-mythic category like ‘Boy and Kite’ where the artist depicts the pleasure of a boy while flying the kite as a memory of his own childhood, or the ‘The Owl’, image of the nocturnal bird that flies within the realm of myth and reality.

Group Exhibitions:

2011 Sreejan presents ‘Anubhabe Rabindranath’
2011 Pentagon presents - A Group show
2011 Sreejan presents an Annual Show
2010 Sreejan presented at Birla Academy Fine Arts, Kolkata
2010 Young Artist painter Circle’ at Kolkata
2010 Eight Present in Kolkata
2010 Renaissance Art Gallery, Bangalore
2010 Pentagon presents Delhi Lalit kala, Kohinoor continental in Mumbai
2010 Chemould Gallery, Kolkata
2009 Sreejan Presented at Birla Academy Fine Arts, Kolkata
2009 Parampara presented at Chemould Gallery, Kolkata
2009 ‘Young Artist painter Circle’ at Birla Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
2008 Charu O Kanru Mela at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
2008 Angan Gallery, Kolkata
2007 Chemould Gallery, Kolkata
2007 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
2005 Banipur Art Society & Institute of Culture, Habra
2005, 10 Birla Academy of Arts & Culture, Kolkata
2004 At Gallery Caps, Kolkata
2004 Banipur Art Society, Habra, W.B
2002 By Inertia Solutions at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
2000 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
1999 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
1998 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata

Solo Exhibitions:

2011 6th Taj Bengal, Kolkata
2010 Emamis sponsored at Art walk
2009 3rd Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
2009 4th & 5th Taj Bengal, Kolkata
2008 2nd Taj Bengal, Kolkata
1998 1st Gaganendra Pradarshan Shala, Kolkata

Achievement:

2005 Awareness, New Delhi

Participations:

2011 Sreejan presents ‘Anubhabe Rabindranath’ 2011 Pentagon presents - A Group show 2011 Sreejan presents an Annual Show 2010 Sreejan presented at Birla Academy Fine Arts, Kolkata 2010 Young Artist painter Circle’ at Kolkata 2010 Eight Present in Kolkata 2010 Renaissance Art Gallery, Bangalore 2010 Pentagon presents Delhi Lalit kala, Kohinoor continental in Mumbai 2010 Chemould Gallery, Kolkata 2009 Sreejan Presented at Birla Academy Fine Arts, Kolkata 2009 Parampara presented at Chemould Gallery, Kolkata 2009 ‘Young Artist painter Circle’ at Birla Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata 2008 Charu O Kanru Mela at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata 2008 Angan Gallery, Kolkata 2007 Chemould Gallery, Kolkata 2007 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata 2005 Banipur Art Society & Institute of Culture, Habra 2005, 10 Birla Academy of Arts & Culture, Kolkata 2004 At Gallery Caps, Kolkata 2004 Banipur Art Society, Habra, W.B 2002 By Inertia Solutions at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata 2000 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata 1999 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata 1998 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
2011 6th Taj Bengal, Kolkata 2010 Emamis sponsored at Art walk 2009 3rd Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata 2009 4th & 5th Taj Bengal, Kolkata 2008 2nd Taj Bengal, Kolkata 1998 1st Gaganendra Pradarshan Shala, Kolkata