SPECTACULAR -IV

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way— things I had no words for.” — Georgia O’Keeffe This wisdom quote holds true to its soul in the artworks by Subhro K. Banerjee, hailing from Kolkata. loves to express on canvas the daily life as he sees it from various perspectives, paints the myriad emotions of life. Art being his language of soul, the expression of heart and the very root of his existential being. 

“The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.” — Vincent van Gogh In the city of joy Kolkata unfolds a magical story of an artist who lives rather than draw art, for whom art is life day in and day out. Be it running the daily errands, the rush to catch the metro, or the chit chat, tea and politics the soulful insignia of Kolkata, Subhro lives art through every expression of the city of joy. In his paintings and drawings life dances, it smiles and gets its soul. His artworks are the projections of his innate love for life, spluttered with joys and splashed with colours of happiness. From a simple morning walk to the maddening rush of life in a metro, Subhro is a soul who smiles and so does his art, never there is a dull moment in any one of them. Shades of passion red and hues of orange depict the innate spirit of happiness and joy Subhro keeps discovering in small but happily amusing and amazing moments of life. His creative expressions speak to you about the myriad sentiments a life undergoes in 24 hrs, with joy, smile and happiness as core elements. Subhro’s artworks are a clear message to the world to always be happy and smiling even when the challenges are unending, for it takes only the darkest of the night for the brightest of the stars to shine. So, it takes only the simplicity and sensitivity of an artist like Subhro expressed in drawings and Paintings to spread smiles around the world making it a happier place with the strokes so simple but with the depth of an ocean. His artworks behold the intensity of the bright sunshine which has the power to brighten any life and even non – life any singular day. As he takes on the vagaries and nuances of everyday life he adds a degree of joy to them with his caricatures and weaves soulful emotions in colours and strokes. Subhro with his artworks has shown how to express the unexpressed and how to say the unsaid with a spirit of joy and happiness. His artworks are the mirror of many harsh truths of life, but in his strokes all that harshness transforms into lustrous malleability and sings the mellifluous tunes of life nurtured with joys and smiles. Subhro’s artworks are a delight to art connoisseurs and a deep sea of happy creativity to dive in for the artists. A smiling message of love, happiness and joy is what Subros artworks are. They epitomise what the famous artist Paul Cézanne said, “A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” 

STUTI KARLA ( ART CRITIC)