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Sumitro Basak, a prominent local artist, photographed with a group of Kushti wrestlers in Alex Vadukul and Max VadukulSumitro Basak, a.
The overwhelming presence of advertisements forms the subject matter of Kolkata-based artist Sumitro Basak, who for long has been fascinated by..
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The bawdy and the beautiful
It’s the explosion of psychedelic colours that hits you first.
Next, the sheer scale of some of the work. As many as nine canvases come together, like pieces of a mad jigsaw puzzle, to form Amar Sonar Bangla-II, a spectacular composition in Sumitro Basak’s new solo show (the title alludes, with stinging irony, to Rabindranath Tagore’s ditty, My Golden Bengal, composed in the wake of the partition of Bengal in ).
Basak’s paintings are best viewed with tongue firmly lodged in cheek.
Born in and trained at the Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, he is one of the most adventurous painters in the country today. His work may be grounded in the realities of West Bengal, but it is inflected as much by Andy Warhol’s pop art as by the satirists of 19th century Bengal and the visual idiom of the patuas —folk painters and storytellers—of the Bengal countryside.
To appreciate the full complexity of Basak’s paintings, you h