Shyamal Mukherjee: The Comic Muse
Shyamal Mukherjee's reverse paintings on acrylic sheet, his Babu and Bibi figures, and the wit and folk tradition his work draws on.
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Through the Looking Glass: The Art of Chaitali De Chanda
An essay on Chaitali De Chanda's paintings of rural and semi-urban Bengal life, and the feminist perspective critics find in her work.
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Ramananda Bandyopadhyay: A Solitary Quest
An introduction to Ramananda Bandyopadhyay's paintings of Bengal village life, myth and the female figure, shaped by his training under Nandalal Bose at Santiniketan.
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Mapping Terrains: The Art of Ganesh Haloi
Ganesh Haloi's early life, his years documenting the Ajanta murals, and the landscape abstractions in gouache and watercolour that followed.
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The Landscapes of Gopal Ghose
Gopal Ghose (1913-1980) painted the fields and people of rural Bengal in watercolour and pastel, working calligraphic lines into scenes of village life.
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Shyamal Dutta Ray: A Life in Watercolour
Shyamal Dutta Ray (1934-2005) trained at the Government College of Art and Crafts in Kolkata and spent his career developing watercolour into a serious medium.
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Jogen Chowdhury: Artist, Poet and Teacher
Jogen Chowdhury studied academic method in Kolkata and Paris, then moved beyond it to develop the cross-hatched style that defines his ink, pastel and watercolour work.
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The Majumdar Siblings
Kamal Kumar Majumdar, Nirode Mazumdar and Shanu Lahiri were siblings from one Kolkata family who shaped Bengali writing, painting and public art across the twentieth century.
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Krishen Khanna: Last Man Standing
Krishen Khanna, the last surviving member of the Progressive Artists' Group, on partition, Bombay and thirteen years at a bank before he turned to painting.
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The Babu Culture: Lalu Prasad Shaw's Bengal
Lalu Prasad Shaw drew on Kalighat patas and Mughal miniatures to build a tempera practice centred on the Babu culture of urban Calcutta.
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The Real of the American Dream: George Bellows's Urban America
George Bellows painted the boxing matches, tenement children and building sites of the American cities usually kept out of the frame, and out of the dream.
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Hopper's Paintings as Virtual Images: Realism All Too Un-Real
Edward Hopper used windows as 'screens' that draw the viewer into scenes he never fully reveals — an effect closer to cinema than realism.
