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Shyamal Dutta Ray
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"The imagery in my paintings comes mostly from my personal experiences. It is the visual world and its influences on me, that I try to reveal on my canvas."
Shyamal Dutta Ray's body of work constitutes a major turning point in the history of the Bengal school of art. Ray is credited with adding depth and intensity to the medium of watercolours, at a time when the Bengal school of Art traditionally used light and watery colours....
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"The imagery in my paintings comes mostly from my personal experiences. It is the visual world and its influences on me, that I try to reveal on my canvas."
Shyamal Dutta Ray's body of work constitutes a major turning point in the history of the Bengal school of art. Ray is credited with adding depth and intensity to the medium of watercolours, at a time when the Bengal school of Art traditionally used light and watery colours. His melancholic and pensive works reflect the contradictions of life around him.
Regarded as a master watercolourist, Ray is also a founding member of the Society of Contemporary Artists, an artists' collective, that sought to introduce innovativeness into the art world of the 1960s. Most of Ray's work reflects the city life of Calcutta, with its happiness and sorrow, struggle and strife, poverty and hope. The works also exhibit a sense of irony, surrealism and awareness of a disintegrating society.
Shyamal Dutta Ray studied at the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta. He has received many honours: the Award of Merit from the Lalit Kala Academy, the Shiromani Kala Puraskar, and the Special Commendation of the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad. His works have been exhibited in Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta and Bangalore. He has participated in international shows such as the Third World Biennale of Graphics, London, and the Havana Biennale, Cuba, to mention a few. His works are in the collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Glenbarra Museum, Japan.
The Artist passed away on 19th May 2005
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Born
1934
Ranchi, Bihar
Died
2005
Education
1950 -55 Diploma in Painting, Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata
Exhibitions
Selected Posthumous Exhibitions
2012-13 'Calcutta Chromosome',...
Selected Posthumous Exhibitions
2012-13 'Calcutta Chromosome', The Viewing Room, Mumbai
2011-12 'Reprise 2011', Aicon Gallery, New York
2010-11 'Figure/Landscape: Part Two', Aicon Gallery, London
2010 'Figure/Landscape: Part One', Aicon Gallery, New York
2009 'Indian Art After Independence: Selected Works from the Collections of Virginia & Ravi Akhoury and Shelley & Donald Rubin', Emile Lowe Gallery, Hempstead
2009 'Wound', Aicon Gallery, London
2009 75th Birth Anniversary Show, Akar Prakar, Kolkata
2009 'Tracing Time', Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2008 'Post Independence Masters', Aicon Gallery, New York
2008 ‘Shyamal Dutta Ray Memorial Show’, Akar Prakar, Kolkata
2006 ‘Tribute’, Aicon Gallery, New York
Selected Exhibitions
1999 ‘Watercolor Marks’, Mumbai
1999 ‘Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper’, Bonhams, London
1997 Exhibition, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1995 'Modern and Contemporary Indian Paintings 'Sotheby's Auction, London
1993 ‘'Artists for Helpage', Asprey's Auction, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1993 ‘Wounds’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
1991 ‘Art For Spastics’, Kolkata
1990 ‘Bengal Art Today’, Galerie 88, Kolkata
1987 ‘Indian Drawing Today’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1984 Kala Yatra and Sistas, Chennai
1982 Kala Yatra, Mumbai, Bangalore, London, Manchester, Paris
1981 Kala Yatra, Hyderabad
1981 ‘Indian Painting Today’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1971 ‘Prints from India’, Poland
1969 Traveling Exhibition, Asian Graphic Prints, USA
1958 Exhibition at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
Participations
1986 6th International Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi
1983 Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh
1982 National Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi
1982 Inaugural Exhibition, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
1980 All India Graphic Exhibition, Chandigarh
1978,79,80,84 InterGrafik, East Germany
1976 Western Pacific Print Biennale, Australia
Honours and Awards
1958 Gold Medal, Academy of Fine Art, Kolkata
1968 Rabindra Bharati University Award, Kolkata
1968 Founder Member, Group 8, Kolkata
1972,73,75,78 Birla academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
1982 National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi
1988 Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore
1988 Awarded Shiromoni Puraskar
1958 Gold Medal, Academy of Fine Art, Kolkata
1968 Rabindra Bharati University Award, Kolkata
1968 Founder Member, Group 8, Kolkata
1972,73,75,78 Birla academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
1982 National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi
1988 Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore
1988 Awarded Shiromoni Puraskar
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