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When surrealist paintings starting with watercolours and tempera.
She was an Albanian Roman Catholic missionary, her former home and charity in Kolkata is now known as the Motherhouse, where you can find Mother Teresa’s tomb. Kolkata is located on the Eastern edge of India. This is a city that teems with streams of honking traffic, restaurants and street food. Located under the Howrah Bridge, you can visit the Mullik Ghat flower market (open all hours of the day), where vendors and porters continually walk and run up and down auctioning off their stock. To remember these places, you can admire one of the paintings that a native of this city has wonderfully created.
With fantasy and dark imagery, he had developed his own style of surrealism, always around the themes of Bengali folklore and mythology. Born in Kolkata (West Bengal), into a June day, GANESH PYNE is a notable artists of the Bengal School of Art. He grew up listening to folktales and reading fantastic stories, always from children’s books, creating the vocabulary of his future art. He studied at Government College of Art & Craft (an educational institution associated with Bengal School of Art), graduating in 1959. Taking from the dark innards of his imagination, like a poet of melancholia he explored elements of the subconscious, having a meticulous narrative quality.
For using dark colours and blue and motifs suggesting death, he was also known as “painter of darkness”. GANESH PYNE commenced his artistic career in the early 1960s, as a illustrated books and animation films in Kolkata. The 1970s, were his important period, he had moved to create in water colours. He was the only significant artist of his generation who side stepped the progressives of the forties, forging a personal idiom rather than slipping into traditionalism. Gradually he shifted to tempera, for his subsequent abstract and surrealist work period (in ochre, black and blue shades).
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