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Imprints from the jungle
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Bishu Dhar's paintings rediscover the missing simplicity in modern art
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VIBRANT HUES One of Bishu Dhar's painting
Art began when primitive man blew chewed chalk on his palm covering the cave walls to create a pattern marked out by his hand. This vague imagery changed over time to realism and now the cycle is getting completed as artists try to rediscover the purity of thought and emotion.
Bishnu Dhar is among the artists who are trying to rediscover the missing simplicity in modern art.
This is the feeling you get as you see a clutch of his paintings on display at the Shristi Art Gallery.
If at the entrance you see the ebullient, bright and feminine hues, then inside you see the mellowing of tones and a sharper delineation.
Not surprising for someone hailing from the land of Durga and Kali, the feminine forms dominate his canvas.
Dhar takes his predilection a step further as he morphs the fish eyes and blends it into the eyes of a schoolgirl, the woman next door and every feminine thing. The result is simplicity.
Parallel to this is Dhar's take on animal world where he uses a white background to flesh out the animal he has drawn. No. Dhar doesn't draw the whole animal, he only marks out the beginning and the end (the face and the tail). The rest is left to the viewer's imagination.
To accompany the thought process, Dhar includes a bit of ironic scientific information addled with mythology.
His preface to the exhibition titled Different Strokes, sums up the mood: " I do not believe in restricting my vision or expressing myself through a fixed prism of thought. I like to open up the windows of my imagination wide and fly unfettered, unbiased."
To say that religion and its paraphernalia dominate Dhar's work would be to do a disservice to his effort.
The ordinary drama of life: playing cards, plying rickshaws, come alive on Dhar's canvas in vibrant colours of life.
SERISH NANSETTI
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