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The mind is a baby
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Dhiraj Chowdhury demands a different perspective with his canvases
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Childish joy One of Dhiraj’s creations
Dhiraj Choudhury’s realism defies classification. Using his command over the flowing line and an artless use of geometry and colours, Dhiraj’s works are jarring in the extreme.
A sense of fun pervades the canvases as the playful use of bright colours
But the humour can transform itself into violence as the smooth lines change into contorted angles. There is an ominousness in the eye.
The subjects are simple: the juggler at the fair, the mother with her child, the lounging woman, the flute player etc. but how differently he perceives and paints them is what Dhiraj’s art is all about right from the time he started showing in 1960s in the Coffee House in Kolkata. From there it has been a long and eventful journey for the artist whose works are part of some of the best known collections in the world. Underneath all the artless is perhaps the Picasso’s axiom about children and art.
Dhiraj dabbles in a range of media from acrylics to oils to charcoal and water colours to either show the hurry or calm and bring alive the fleeting thought with his busy lines that are crossed over, drawn over and are redrawn. He establishes a visual chemistry that is a play of colours and childish scrawl.
SERISH NANISETTI
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