 |
|
It is the play of light - in congested concrete landscapes, dark, gloom filled interiors and smoky, festive nights that fascinates Sudip Roy. This Calcutta based artist, has been exploring watercolor - one of the mainstays of this part of India -for quite some time now. However unlike the pale, facile washes of colour - enlivened drawings of the old Bengal School, Roy's is the new generation water colour - complex and multilayered, rich in both texture and colour. His forte is genre - be it the romantic ruins of old havelis with their
crumbling jaliwork windows, cobwebby, cusped arches and flagstoned floors
or vignettes of small town life with its acompanying hopes and aspirations.
This could crystallize in the form of a young boy, eagerly awaiting the
festival of colours, gazing at piles of gulal and water sprinkers, guns
and balloons - or retired babulok, sifting under the shade of indigenous
sun umbrellas, whiling away the heat of the afternoon amongst like-minded
contemporaries.
Veena Kotian-Thimmaiah.
|
|
|
@ Indian Art CircleAtelier 2000
| [ Back to renaissance Home ] |
[ Back
to IAC Home ]
|
@ Indian Art CircleAtelier 2000