Chowdhury believes that his figurations can transcend the banal and create a vocabulary that is uniquely his. “Disproportion is the essence of Jogen’s bodies, the sign of their naturalness…they are also more evocative and always realistically rendered. In them disproportion is expression, never deformation…” (R. Siva Kumar, Jogen Chowdhury Enigmatic Visions, Glenbarra Art Museum, 2005, p.11). The dominating element of Chowdhury’s works whether... Chowdhury believes that his figurations can transcend the banal and create a vocabulary that is uniquely his. “Disproportion is the essence of Jogen’s bodies, the sign of their naturalness…they are also more evocative and always realistically rendered. In them disproportion is expression, never deformation…” (R. Siva Kumar, Jogen Chowdhury Enigmatic Visions, Glenbarra Art Museum, 2005, p.11). The dominating element of Chowdhury’s works whether for paintings or drawings is the line. He is an artist who is convinced that “one really starts appreciating a work of art only when one is able to appreciate it in its simplest form of expression, as a drawing: for a real work of art has to be a work of art before it can be a drawing or a painting or a sculpture…” (ibid 13)

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