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By Arun Kumar Ghosh
Introduction
The multifaceted creative personality, Jogen Chowdhury, an artist, poet and teacher is recognized as one of the most prominent artists of today’s India, after having passed through post-Independence period more dramatically highlighting human and derivative forms in his painting.
Early Life and Education
Faridpur, East Bengal born artist first came to Calcutta during the time of Partition and attended the Government College of Art and Crafts, Kolkata from 1955-1960. At the art college, it was a period of being imparted with knowledge in compliance with the British Academic practices. Many years later Chowdhury voiced the concern he had.
"The issue pertaining to the art college at Kolkata is that art training starts with the life study, still life compositions and so on and the art student here has no chance in whatsoever to ascend to a higher plane of thinking to come out with something different, something more creative."
Five years after that, a French Government Scholarship administered to him another course of academic flavour by sponsoring him to Paris where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
Artistic Journey
When Chowdhury had left the classic academic training at the initial phase of his career, he carved out his own cross-hatching method by which he was able to draw the looking like human, animal and other forms of figures. The subject’s works lack references to the time and place, thus suggesting the theme of displacement and the loss of a home that the writer suffered as a boy.
"There is some strength in the stasis of an object. Stasis can be understood as speed when force is not actively being applied. It is a stillness that contributes to a work of art having a higher pitch," adds the artist.
International Recognition
Chowdhury is an internationally recognized artist and he has also gone to art camps and art workshops, nationally and across the border. He was a major participant of the group show of the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in 1957 to 1980. His first solo show happened in 1963 and his drawings and paintings were displayed at the Academy of Fine Arts of Calcutta. Since then, he has taken part in numerous other international exhibitions some in Washington D.C., Oxford, Tokyo, in shows at the Royal Academy of Art in London and both Havana and Sao Paolo Biennales.
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