An artist should dabble in all art forms: Jatin Das
22 Feb 2013 10:36 PM GMT
There is some connection between art and literature. Whether it is music, poetry, dance or art — they all touch a chord in our heart.
When the winds of modernisation swept India, it somehow managed to subdue the traditional art forms and create a gap between the two forms of art — oral and written. Initially, literature and art were interlinked in a very intricate way but as oral literature started getting replaced by written literature, the relationship weakened. A divide came between literature and other arts.
It was this relationship and divide that eminent painter Jatin Das probed into in his talk ‘My World, My Art’ at the Sahitya Utsav organised by Sahitya Akademi.
‘Poetry, music, dance are all interrelated and in order to master any of it, you need verse epics,’ he said. His perspective on art is that ‘everything is creative and everyone has one or the other kind of creative pursuit and the kind of environment that a person gets decides his personality’.
The veteran painter talked about his works. The variety in his work asserts his stance that one has to dabble in different art forms to truly become an artist.
Since the world around us has become so fast paced, we don’t have time to appreciate nature and art anymore. Das lamented that today’s generation has no respect for nature or tradition as a sense of history has not been instilled in them either in school or at home. The education system is such that it deters artistic growth, he said, when it doesn’t allows a student studying painting to join the graphics department or when contemporary art schools don’t teach traditional arts to students.
‘In the process of learning Western etiquettes and language, we have forgotten the fantastic rich culture of our country,’ rued Das.
According to the painter, what people need to realise is that art forms are so strongly related that one can’t do one thing without another. In order to understand art, one has to respect culture and tradition, view paintings and admire the notes of music.
All forms of art and literature have a common wavelength and work on a parallel level and an artist has to have a thorough knowledge of this kinship.
‘For a country to succeed, there has to be a vision. We are all lost without it and we have to nurture the younger artists. And young people have to have sweat and blood under the bridge to become a true artist,’ he signed off.
When the winds of modernisation swept India, it somehow managed to subdue the traditional art forms and create a gap between the two forms of art — oral and written. Initially, literature and art were interlinked in a very intricate way but as oral literature started getting replaced by written literature, the relationship weakened. A divide came between literature and other arts.
It was this relationship and divide that eminent painter Jatin Das probed into in his talk ‘My World, My Art’ at the Sahitya Utsav organised by Sahitya Akademi.
‘Poetry, music, dance are all interrelated and in order to master any of it, you need verse epics,’ he said. His perspective on art is that ‘everything is creative and everyone has one or the other kind of creative pursuit and the kind of environment that a person gets decides his personality’.
The veteran painter talked about his works. The variety in his work asserts his stance that one has to dabble in different art forms to truly become an artist.
Since the world around us has become so fast paced, we don’t have time to appreciate nature and art anymore. Das lamented that today’s generation has no respect for nature or tradition as a sense of history has not been instilled in them either in school or at home. The education system is such that it deters artistic growth, he said, when it doesn’t allows a student studying painting to join the graphics department or when contemporary art schools don’t teach traditional arts to students.
‘In the process of learning Western etiquettes and language, we have forgotten the fantastic rich culture of our country,’ rued Das.
According to the painter, what people need to realise is that art forms are so strongly related that one can’t do one thing without another. In order to understand art, one has to respect culture and tradition, view paintings and admire the notes of music.
All forms of art and literature have a common wavelength and work on a parallel level and an artist has to have a thorough knowledge of this kinship.
‘For a country to succeed, there has to be a vision. We are all lost without it and we have to nurture the younger artists. And young people have to have sweat and blood under the bridge to become a true artist,’ he signed off.
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