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Place of Birth: Faridpur District, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh
About Jogen Chowdhury
- Jogen Chowdhury (born 16 February 1939) is an eminent Indian painter and considered an important painter of 21st century India.
- He lives and works in Santiniketan.
- He graduated from the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata and subsequently at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 1967.
- He has immense contribution in inspiring young artists of India.
- Jogen Chowdhury had developed his individual style after his return from Paris.
- His most famous paintings are in ink, water colour and pastel.
- He has painted in oil medium as well. Lines and its tactile characteristic to enhance colours is an important material in Indian Art for ages.
- Jogen Chowdhury himself is a master of lines and he has mastered to make the curves depict the character of his figures.
- By careful distortion of the form he imparts the air of caricature in his figures, figures of men and women.
- The figure is always the most important and conveys all the artist has to express.
- Colour, he uses though, is to provide matter into the form.
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- Siva Kumar has lucidly described Jogen's works in the following excerpt:"The pulse and rhythm of Jogen Chowdhury’s art comes from a filial affinity to nature and milieu.
- In Chowdhury’s more recent works the sensory experiences of cloth, bolsters, sofas and the human body are cross-projected to produce an uncanny world of tran-substantiated tumescence and flaccidness.
- Mnemic displacements and personal associations add to the symbolic ambivalence of his motifs, making his images come closer to inexplicable experiences than to explicit signs.
- In the postures of some figures we feel an animal sentience, in the ripe anatomy of others we savour a fruity succulence.
- The figures are wrought by a combination of decorative wilfulness and expressive distortion and are imbued with an effusive sensuality.
- Chowdhury’s art is rich in suggestions; it is to be apprehended without bracketing our fund of knowledge, experience or memories, but also cannot be narrativised without trivialising it, without depleting its sensory particularities."
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