Shuvaprasanna - Retrospective

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=140 BGCOLOR="#660000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.grieb.org/shuva" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.grieb.org/shuva"><FONT COLOR="#EEEEEE">Home</FONT></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="time.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shuvaprasanna Time"><FONT COLOR="#EEEEEE"><B>Time</B></FONT></A></div> <div> <A HREF="illusion.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shuvaprasanna Illusion"><FONT COLOR="#EEEEEE"><B>Illusion</B></FONT></A></div> <div> <A HREF="metropolis.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shuvaprasanna Metropolis"><FONT COLOR="#EEEEEE"><B>Metropolis </B></FONT></A></div> <div> <A HREF="aves.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shuvaprasanna Aves"><FONT COLOR="#EEEEEE"><B>Aves</B></FONT></A></div> <div> <A HREF="animals.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shuvaprasanna Animals"><FONT COLOR="#EEEEEE"><B>Animals</B></FONT></A></div> <div> <A HREF="flute.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shuvaprasanna Golden Flute"><FONT COLOR="#EEEEEE"><B>Golden Flute</B></FONT></A></div> <div> <A HREF="icons.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shuvaprasanna Icons"><FONT COLOR="#EEEEEE"><B>Icons</B></FONT></A></div> <div> <A HREF="metamorph.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shuvaprasanna Metamorphosis"><FONT COLOR="#EEEEEE"><B>Metamorphosis</B></FONT></A></div> <div> <A HREF="portraits.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shuvaprasanna Portraits"><FONT COLOR="#EEEEEE"><B>Portraits</B></FONT></A></div> <div> <A HREF="sculpture.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shuvaprasanna Sculpture"><FONT COLOR="#EEEEEE"><B>Sculpture</B></FONT></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="vita.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shuvaprasanna Vita"><FONT COLOR="#EEEEEE"><B>Vita</B></FONT></A></div> <div> <A HREF="references.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shuvaprasanna References"><FONT COLOR="#EEEEEE"><B>References</B></FONT></A></div> <div> <A HREF="contact.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shuvaprasanna Contact"><FONT COLOR="#EEEEEE"><B>Contact</B></FONT></A></div> <div> © 2013 Shuvaprasanna</div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FF9900" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="615" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#FF9900 > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 835 WIDTH="609"><div> <B>Shuvaprasanna </B></div> <div> Retrospective</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="09013700.jpg" border=0 width="275" height="368" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Artist, Organizer, Teacher, Social Activist</B></div> <div> "Shuva, a people’s person, is a man of many parts – artist, organizer, teacher and social activist. Ever ready to help others and take up new challenges, he is a prominent intellectual and an active player in Bengal’s cultural and socio-political movements. …A fatherly figure on the contemporary Indian art circuit, he is hard working and determined, brimming with ideas and energy." </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> (<I>Sushma Bahl in </I><A HREF="references.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shuvaprasanna References"><I>"Black Brown & the Blue</I></A><I>"</I>)</div> <div> <B>Bengalee by Passion</B></div> <div> "To Shuvaprasanna complete abstraction is too artificial, too 'lifeless', too wide away from the direct approach of human relations in a city like Calcutta. On the other hand, he is naturally not a photographer who portrays the reality. But Shuvaprasanna reduces; he therefore abstracts gradually. His presentation of reality often has dream-like elements in it. But does not the dream often show a deeper view of reality? "</div> <div> "...in spite of all universality of the assessment Shuvaprasanna is not simply 'westernized'. Just on the contrary: he is an Indian by conviction, a Bengalee by passion and a Calcuttan out of his love for the city." </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>(Ralf Oestreich)</I></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="616" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 23 WIDTH="610"><div> <A HREF="http://www.artsacre.org/home1.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.artsacre.org/home1.html">Arts Acre Foundation</A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="610"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="610" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>