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Born in Serampore (Calcutta), India 1993, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta, India |
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"I grew up in a strict, conservative, and academic environment in Chandannagar, a French colony. I was a very fast learner and a restless youth. I started sketching when I was around six to seven years of age. I used to sketch on the ground most of the time with chalk when my parents weren’t around. Painting is not accepted in my family. It is seen as a lavish waste of time and money. Therefore, I was denied of paints or any art materials. Instead, music was an essential part of the family, along with regular studies. I started learning tabla, the Indian classical drum, at the age of six. I remember when I was eleven, my music teacher saw my strong interest in painting, and recommended to my mother that I take it up since it would decrease my restlessness. Still, it took one more year for me to get a pad of art paper and a set of oil pastels. I distinctly remember that happiest of moments when I started expressing in color and in my own way, what I saw in front of me. It didn’t take long to go through that pad. That is how I started my painting, and my affinity for it has grown ever since. It created such new problems as keeping track of time. Since I had no choice, I developed my own style of fast-paced painting. Gradually, it became my passion. I used to sketch secretly in notebooks or whatever was available at the time. In spite of my family’s disapproval, awards and honors in the field came pretty fast. It encouraged me to continue my creative work, however, I was slowly loosing ground due to family pressure. I realized that I needed to be independent to carry on my passion. Thus my new struggle for learning started.
I started reading volumes on Monet, Picasso, van Gogh, and Rabindranath Tagore. They are the greatest inspirations of my paintings, and they are part of my life. It was the silent expressive power that moved me and inspired me more than anything else. Paintings come very naturally to me, and the unimaginable joy I get after finishing it can’t be compared to anything else in the world. It is actually more powerful than I am. It wasn’t hard for me to grasp the concepts of mathematics and physics. I like the abstract theories of science and find that in some way it is very much related to art--both are expressed through creative observation. My deductions of every-day physics come through painting, which is nothing but true stories created from imagination. Consider the Pointillist concepts of Georges Seurat and the diffraction of light, or the unconscious answer of Cubism to the Theory of Relativity, or Manet’s example of how light travels in A Bar at the Folies-Bergere. To me, science is an art in itself, and philosophy nourishes mankind. I love people, and I can’t live without them. Every moment of my life is a learning process which I express through my paintings. The beauty and loving nature of women fascinates me the most. Somewhere in my mind, I see the coincidence of Earth and the affectionate, soft nature of women. The things that hurt me the most are animosity, hatred, self-centeredness, and greediness in people. That is why motherly affection comes into my paintings again and again to empower love and destroy evil. Today, struggle and exploitation have given my work a new expressionist direction. Financial and mental struggles are nothing new to me, but paintings provide me with inner strength to stand up against all forces. I am just trying to create something by giving everything of myself. I use every drop of my blood to make those paintings colorful."
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