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Artist Gopal Sanyal was born in Orissa in 1933 and studied painting, earning a diploma at the department of Fine Arts from the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata in 1957. He became one of the founding members of Calcutta Painters, where he displayed and gained recognition for his works widely. Gopal Sanyal worked with figures, where he explored distortion and abstract representation of tradition and humans. Alongside this, he... Artist Gopal Sanyal was born in Orissa in 1933 and studied painting, earning a diploma at the department of Fine Arts from the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata in 1957. He became one of the founding members of Calcutta Painters, where he displayed and gained recognition for his works widely. Gopal Sanyal worked with figures, where he explored distortion and abstract representation of tradition and humans. Alongside this, he represented people through everyday life settings, where mundane practices stand to obtain the same importance as godly or transcendent representations.

Sanyal gained multiple awards during his life, such as the National Scholarship in painting, gifted thrice, by the Govt. of India. After which in 1971 he was given the award from AIFACS, New Delhi.

Gopal Sanyal passed away in 2006.

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