All art is spiritual as it eventually connects the practitioner with the higher being through music, dance and painting. Bimal Dasgupta found his connect through abstraction. Through this Untitled work, he brings focus to the most seminal natural phenomenon—the flowering of a bud in tune with the rhythm set for it by nature itself. The flowering bud infuses the verdant field and the dark green leaves of its parent plant with an energy depicted through fluid strokes. The fecund red juxtaposed against the lush green emphasises the never-ceasing march of life since the beginning of time.
published references
Singh, Kishore, ed., Manifestations 5: 20th Century Indian Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2011), p. 58 Singh, Kishore, ed., The Art of Bengal (New Delhi: DAG, 2012), p. 305 Singh, Kishore, ed., Indian Abstracts: An Absence of Form (New Delhi: DAG, 2014), p. 134 Singh, Kishore, ed., A Visual History of Indian Modern Art, Volume VII: Alternate Sensibilities (New Delhi: DAG, 2015), p. 1287
Bimal Dasgupta
Untitled
1971
Oil on jute
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1971
Oil on jute
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