galerie 88 - Art Chennai
galerie 88 - Art Chennai
galerie 88 - Art Chennai
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ART GALLERY | LATITUDE 28<br />
JOGEN CHOWDHURY<br />
(b.1939)<br />
A revered painter and a master, Jogen Chowdhury’s works are immediately recognizable for their<br />
cross-hatched, weathered subjects. His expressionistic style of painting, captures in his subject matter<br />
the circumstances and sentiments that draw the strings of their existence. Dabbling in the anti-aesthetic,<br />
with distortion and his unique use of lines, he conjures this characteristic style which emotes the trauma,<br />
hopes, dreams and subjective beauty. The pathos of tragic comedy defines his works. Born in a village<br />
near Kotaliparha, now Bangladesh, themes of exile, nostalgia and yearning are sub-textual suggestions<br />
that have persisted in his works over time. From his earlier landscapes to later portraits, his style has<br />
been influenced by the investment in detail often observed in the Kalighat pats, whether the scale of his<br />
works are small or large. The artist lives and works in Santiniketan, West Bengal.<br />
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