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 storm-tossed landscape, where the blue of the river blends into the blue of the upturned trees. Amidst this turbulence, two minuscule figures bend over to glean after the harvest, as indicated by blotches of yellow paint that is scattered around them.