Jahar Dasgupta
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Jahar Dasgupta | |
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Occupation(s) | Painter, sculptor, social activist, teacher |
Years active | 1969–present |
Known for | Painting |
Awards | Paricharan Sarkar Memorial Award |
Jahar Dasgupta, (born 31 May 1942) is a contemporary painter from India.[1] He was born in Jamshedpur, India.
Early life and education
Jahar Dasgupta's childhood spent in
His first job was an art teacher in a non Bengali school in North Calcutta where he served for many years. In his struggling time, he also took many art tuitions to run his family. Simultaneously he continued to participate art shows regularly.
Career
Dasgupta had developed his individual style in paintings and drawings. Previously he has painted in oil medium and now he mainly works in ink, pastel and acrylic colour.
His first solo exhibition organised in Birla Academy. His others solo exhibitions took place in Laxmana Art Gallery,
1969–1971
In 1969, a few kind souls, total seven ex-students of
1971–1980
End of 1960s and beginning of 1970s was a period of political turmoil. The left movement in the fold of CPI(ML) rose to its peak ushering in deaths and murders in a devastating measure. The
1981–1999
Jahar never tried being repetitive with one fixed subject. He explored with various subjects and style in different forms in respective times. In one side 'End of an Era', 'Genocide', 'Waiting for Godo', 'Dark side of Civilization', Series of 'Confrontation', 'Shelter' are the reflection of anger and crude rebellion. On the other side through 'Mermaid' series, 'Fall of Radhika' series, 'Eternal Love' series, he touch the chord of beauty ingrained in life. His paintings at that time swing between the two aspects of this duality, ideal and the real, good and evil, light and darkness.
Rotary Club of Madhyamgram recognised by(Rotary International) facilitated him with Lifetime Achievement Award in Fine Arts in the year 2000.
2000–2009
In this era, Jahar mainly concentrated on nature, animal and woman in his canvases. The drawings have been mostly done in dry pastel both in monochrome of black and white. The canvases in acrylic open up various aspects of ideal beauty. The widespread nature of rural Bengal reveals its colourful faces. The nature is transformed into supernatural. These paintings narrates full of life, love, spirit, joy and fantasy.
Sandip Ray, young film director from Bengal who filmed Himghar in 1996, met Dasgupta and showed interest for a documentary on artist. Later, in 2001, he completed the documentary named 'Bornomoy Jahar' and screened at Nandan.
2010–present
While attending a talk entitled 'Nadir Bhabna' (Musings of the river) by Shri Alokeranjan Dasgupta, the artist Shri Jahar Dasgupta encountered a mind blowing experience. Acknowledged gratefully by the painter, the inter-face opened for him the doors to the world of Bergson and his revolutionary thinking.
This was his very first acquaintance with the philosophy of the French thinker and evolutionist Henri Bergson (1894–1941). The uplifting spiritual content of Bergson enkindled the thought process of the artist. All the present series and solos is a living tale of the journey. In fact he is the first artist to apply the theory of Bergson into fine art. This is a very rare and unconventional thinking by Jahar where he blends the science and art beautifully into his canvas.
Shri Dasgupta's creative impulse is enthused by this Aristollean 'entelechy' – the endowment that gives rise to the potential of the vital force. This by itself becomes the prime moves of the artist's imagination. In his depiction of the teeming world of the humans, the birds and beasts and the minutest of insects, he does not change the outward form. The artist in him understands that every moment is changing and leaving the imprint of its transience on the inner mechanism of the body. There by it creates an abstract form within which in its turn is represented with a candid intensity of the artist.
Dasgupta's recent work on Jesus Christ series and a huge mural on MADHABI daughter of yayati from Mahabharata is also a notable work from recent times.
Politics
In the 70s, like many people from art and cultural field in West Bengal, Jahar was among those who attracted to left ideologies and immediately attached to Gananatya Sangha. He twice stood on Panchayet vote under left wing parties at Madhyamgram North 24 Parganas in 1974 and 1984.
Jahar Dasgupta was the former President at Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata where he lives and works. He is also working as a principal of an art academy Swarsangam- Birla Institute of Visual and Performing Arts.
References
- ^ "Stories of life - Express India". Archived from the original on 25 September 2012. Retrieved 21 May 2009.
External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120315035954/http://www.paintersorchestra.com/index.php
- http://www.indianmasterpainters.com/jahardasgupta/jhdhome.htm
- https://archive.today/20150422010959/https://www.canvaskart.com/jahar-dasgupta-paintings
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- https://archive.today/20150422010944/http://www.gingergiraffegallery.com/artist-work.php?id=30
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160303225205/http://www.gaeindia.com/artist.php?fc=J