✿ Subrata GANGOPADHYAY ✿

Le foglie ardite e sottili
musicano i miei canti
ed i miei riccioli ribelli
di passiflora avanzano
avanzano fruscianti sulla mia pelle
come capillari radici ruffiane...

~ Catherine La Rose©2008 ~
Tratto da "Tra te e il mare"

SUBRATA GANGOPADHYAY was born in 1959 in Calcutta,India. He Graduated from Govt. College of Art & Crafts, Calcutta in 1980 with First-class-first Diploma in Paintings (Life-Nature and Murals).Exhibition in Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, 1990-2006 group show : 1979-2008 in all over India work shop : 1996 to 2007 in all over India awards : awarded from many organisation in Kolkata and New Delhi. Subrata Gangopadhyay has the skills of a virtuoso draftsman, skills that he honed during his years as the Senior Artist of the Ananda Bazar Group of publications. The strength of his lines and the life-like quality of his figures are features that have contributed to his enormous popularity and critical success. Widely considered one of India ’s leading painters in the modern realistic tradition, Subrata’s artistic vision is informed by swirling colors, a sense of movement (external and internal), and a vivid array of color. These characteristics are abundant in a series that he has done on Indian dances entitled “Rhythmic Harmony Series”. In these oil and acrylic canvases, the dancers come alive in all of their colorful glory, the swirl of their ghagras leading the rhythm of their feet. K.L. Kaul, art critic writing in The Statesman said: "The gaiety and abundance of a dance movement where the figure itself becomes the rhythm…the natural ease and poise of a belle absorbed in her world exuding an infectious smile, these images stay implanted in the mind. "
Subrata Gangopadhyay exhibits widely within India and overseas .His work is in the collections of RPG Enterprises, the Taj Group, the Chennai Museum, Mayo College, and the Victoria Memorial, to name a few. His work has also been collected privately outside of India , including the United States , Germany , the United Kingdom and France.