Digital Desk, Kolkata, July 2023: A special painting exhibition is about to begin at Chitrakoot Art Gallery. This art exhibition will run from 1st August to 31st August 2023. The exhibition will be open daily from 3 PM to 7 PM. This special exhibition of Chitrakoot Art Gallery includes only Jamini Roy's single pictures.
This entire event was organized by Prabhas Kejriwal, owner of Chitrakoot Art Gallery and Ashateet Halder, owner of Charulata.
Jamini Roy was a Bengali painter. He introduced the famous Bengali folk art of Kalighat Patachitra to the world. Although Jamini Roy was not a Patua herself, she preferred to identify herself as a Patua. Dolls, children, happy and sad pictures of the daily life of the simple people of village Bengal were taken as the 'form' of his pictures.
Although he painted pictures in the foreign style at first, later on, the replica of rural Bengal emerged in his pictures. He chose folk culture for his own characteristics and identity. He was proud of his own Bengali culture and ideology. He was invited many times from abroad but never went abroad. Instead, he developed all his talent on the soil of Bengal.
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