Cutting across more than a century, stretching from the great masters to the young contemporaries of today, through the major artists are from the post-independence era and the 70s and 80s, the show Bengal Panorama is an assortment that also represents the diversity in style, content and medium.
Kolkata based Janus Art Gallery is going to present ‘Bengal Panorama–The legacy and the continuity’ which will offer a glimpse into a rich and variegated collection of art-works from history. It will provide a cross-section of this vibrant time representing artists working with different concerns and reinventing different mediums.
The show will focus on <g data-gr-id="22">this variations</g> and unique individual styles innovated by each artist. The thematic range in this show covers various subjects like simple visual representation of observed facts, stylized imaging of daily life and surroundings, genre paintings, highly personalized views of human struggle, individual psychological expressions to name a few. Similarly, the mediums include water-color on paper, oil on canvas, drawings, and sculptures.
The show will feature the works of artistes like Nandalal Bose, Dhiren Brahma, Paritosh Sen, Taraprasad Biswas, Manik Bandopadhyay, <g data-gr-id="24">Priyo</g> Prasad Gupta, Purna <g data-gr-id="25">Chakroborty</g>, Sajal Roy and others.
Followed by eminent artists from the next generation include Sunil Das, Ramananda Bandopadhyay, Jogen Chowdhury, Lalu Prasad Shaw, Prakash Karmakar, <g data-gr-id="28">Bijon</g> Chowdhury, Bimal Kar, and many more.
They are not only landmark artists in history but each one of them is associated with a unique signature style of their own. The younger contemporaries such as Ananda Moy Banerjee, Debabrata Sarkar and Suvajit Samanta, to name a few, will be presented in this show. They have a stylistic variety that is bold and promising.
Both in terms of handling of the various mediums and a huge range of thematic concerns, the artists showcased in this exhibition represent the diversity and multiplicity in terms of their personal quest and individual artistic tendencies.