Untitled

Trained as a painter and sculptor, Gopal Ghose—a founding member of the Calcutta Group—explored multiple visual vocabularies for representing nature. He was particularly drawn to the modernist languages of Expressionism and Cubism and used them to play with forms and colours in his nature paintings. He travelled extensively within India to paint and concentrated almost exclusively on depicting flora and landscapes. In this painting, we see a burst of orange overwhelming the canvas. Strokes of greenish blue occupy the foreground and the bottom left corner. The colours suggest a landscape, perhaps a field bathed in the afterglow of a sunset.