| Medium | : | Acrylic |
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| Height | : | 30 inch / 76.2 cm |
| Width | : | 30 inch / 76.2 cm |
| Surface | : | Canvas |
| Style | : | Figurative Paintings |
| Dimension | : | W: 76.2 cm × H: 76.2 cm |
A beautifully expressive depiction of Krishna and Radha in a moment of intimate connection. Rich blue and red tones contrast against a serene green landscape, creating a harmonious composition that celebrates love, devotion, and timeless romance through bold forms and graceful movement.
Shuvaprasanna Bhattacharya | Golden Flute | Acrylic on Canvas | 30 x 30 inches
This evocative artwork captures a tender and timeless moment of love, inspired by the divine romance of Krishna and Radha. Rendered in a bold yet poetic visual language, the composition brings together rich symbolism, vibrant colors, and graceful forms to create a scene filled with intimacy and longing.
The deep blue figure, representing Krishna, leans gently toward his beloved, while Radha, draped in a striking red garment, reaches upward in a gesture that feels both affectionate and yearning. Their elongated eyes, expressive hands, and intertwined silhouettes create a sense of movement and emotional connection. The soft green backdrop, punctuated by delicate foliage and fruit, evokes the tranquility of nature, suggesting a secluded garden where love unfolds beyond the boundaries of time.
The contrast between Krishna’s celestial blue and Radha’s radiant red creates a powerful visual harmony, symbolizing the union of devotion, passion, and spirituality. The artist’s distinctive use of simplified forms and textured surfaces lends the painting a dreamlike quality, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in its lyrical narrative.
This artwork is a celebration of eternal love, spiritual companionship, and the beauty of human connection, making it a captivating addition to any art collection.
Beset by problems and politics, but possessing great potential, Kolkata has remained Shuvaprasanna’s abiding inspiration as he absorbs and responds to its upheavals, the tumult of its masses, and its frequent political turbulence.
Born in Calcutta on 20 October 1947, he is a quintessential painter of the eastern metropolis that he unabashedly loves. He graduated from Indian College of Art, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta, in 1969. An active member of Calcutta Painters group, urban themes are a constant in his work.
Skilled in painting, etching, and drawing in mixed media, his artistic and personal concerns lie with urban decay and an anxiety of the collapse of urban culture, seen in his well-known works featuring crows and owls, and the series Illusion, Clock and Bird. This is also visible in his cityscapes which are curiously devoid of human presence; empty lanes and bylanes speak of the absence of the multitudes that populate this crowded city.
In 1984, he founded Arts Acre, an artists’ village in Calcutta, and has worked as editor of Art Today magazine. Awarded by institutions like Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata, Lalit Kala Akademi, West Bengal, and All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi, he was the subject of a documentary film by Goutam Ghose, titled Shuva and Me, in which the two visited Germany to meet German Nobel-laureate Günter Grass. Shuvaprasanna continues to live and work in Kolkata with his artist wife Shipra Bhattacharya.
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