Quintessentially Bengal

Displaying their culture’s best, artists from West Bengal exhibited their works including paintings and sculptures of everyday sights from the region

Art is a beautiful way to describe a place or everyday sights. An ongoing exhibition at The Muse Art Gallery at Marriot Hotel has displayed ‘Colours of Bengal’, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures.

Portraying the beauty of West Bengal in the form of fine art, Chaitali Chanda, Abhijit Bhattacharya, Debendranath Laha, Lalit Maity, Bipad Vanjan Dikder Sikder, Partha Pal and Dr Swapan Paul have exhibited their works, all of which were meaningful.

Abhijit Bhattacharya exhibited nature, moderation, wildlife and landscape in an elegant and pleasant form. One of his paintings, a Lotus leaf, which is broken in between has a hidden meaning - it represents today’s generation where children are mature when compared to the previous generations. Abhijit says, “I observe nature and surroundings, and every painting of mine has a different style and meaning.”

Chaitali Chanda’s displays focussed on different on topics like urban areas, riverside, end of festival and also a beautifully created sculpture in the form of River Ganga. About the ‘End of Festival’ works, Chaitali says, “It shows how the city looks with multiple colours after the celebration of the festival Holi.”

Another marvelous presentation was titled as ‘Night City’, which has a painted wine glass in which the huge population of the city, including vehicles were placed inside the glass, which illustrated night life aptly. Her sculpture of the Ganga River, where she made kalash and a water flowing image with boats floating was a graceful sight.

Partha Pal’s works were eye-catchy as he had painted horses, as well as men and women using geometrical patterns. Debendranath Laha’s wonder painting worked on a theme was based on butterfly wings, which meant womens freedom.

It was very nicely shown on paintings which included nature, woman and beauty. Lalit Maity’s art on the other hand, painted semi abstract designs of human figures by using lines and vibrant colours like red and green.

Most of the paintings at the exhibition were acrylic on canvas and oil on canvas. The skilled artists’ attempts to capture the whole city by paintings and sculptures are noteworthy and brought out the essence of West Bengal.

By: Chitra Saikumar