Anamitro’s Paintings
Hi! I am Anamitro Biswas. This webpage showcases a few of my works: paintings, inkings and sketches, inspired by the Bengal Renaissance School’s style. Here you can find some irrelevant details about me.
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Here are some repititive themes I have taken up:
The Mahābhārata
The Mahābhārata
Śrī Krishna guiding Arjuna through his dilemma
(Poster color on 25% cotton paper, A4)
There was an extensive transcription of Swami Vivekananda’s vision of the scene from Bhagavad Gita, in one of his interviews. I tried to derive from that, but could not capture perfectly. Later I found that there exists a version by Nandalal Bose, which captures Swamiji’s words way better.
Aswatthama
ink on paper, 8 × 8 cm
A scene from Bhāsa's play Dūtavākyam (What The Messenger Says)
(gel-based ink on paper, 29.7 × 21 cm)
Śrī Krishna visits the Kuru court to negotiate a peace treaty on behalf of Yudhishthira. The arrogant Prince Duryōdhana has threatened his courtiers with a fine on whoever stands up to honour him. Duryōdhana himself pretends to be engrossed in a painting as an excuse not to notice Śrī Krishna’s arrival.
After all this, Śrī Krishna’s first dialogue in the play is, ‘Why are you all standing up? Why are you all scared of me? Relax!’
On Stories
On Stories
Ravana, the dictator
(based on Buddhadeb Basu’s play, ink on A4 paper)
The play shows the Patriarch of Lanka, cast as a villain in the Ramayana, as a confident autocrat carried away by eccentricities befitting an enigma. While his son Indrajit's pyre burns, he observes over it the shadow of his youth’s deity Shiva, the god of destruction, forecasting the fall of Lanka to Rama's invasion, and Ravana says to himself, ‘Then, my Lord, you haven't entirely forsaken me after all?'
Sadashiv meets Sivaji, based on Saradindu Badyopadhyay’s novella
(ink on A4 paper)
Long ago, so says Indian folklore, the Supreme Goddess was born as the daughter of mathematician Kātyāyana, who is attributed some beautiful pre-Euclidean work on intuitive geometry.
A more recent legend about the devout lyricist Ramprasad Sen. The Mother Goddess is said to have appeared to him as his daughter, to help him tying up a fence around his house, a chore at which the mystic Ramprasad was very clumsy.
Katyayana and his Daughter. I have envisioned Katyayana based on Ramprasad’s portrait. (Gel-based ink on A4 paper.)
Kali, the Goddess of Time
Kali, the Goddess of Time
মহাকালের মনমোহিনী সদানন্দময়ী কালী।
আপনি নাচ আপনি গাও মা আপনি দাও মা করতালি॥
(কমলাকান্ত ভট্টাচার্য)
(Ink on paper, 21 × 21 cm)
কহো দেখি ভোলানাথ—
সমুদ্র-মন্থন-কালে বিষপান করেছিলে যখন;
ডেকেছিলে ‘দুর্গা’ ব’লে— ‘রক্ষা করো!’
সেইদিন ভুলে কি বলেছিলে তারে ‘জননী’?
(হেনস্ম্যান অ্যণ্টনি)
Poster color on canvas, A4
<< Bhairavī, the Goddess in Search
^ Dhūmāvatī, the Melancholy Goddess
(both, ink on 25% cotton A4 paper)
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