Over Bridge

Medium:Acrylic
Height:42 inch / 106.7 cm
Width:36 inch / 91.4 cm
Surface:Canvas
Style:Animals paintings, Figurative Paintings
Dimension:W: 91.4 cm × H: 106.7 cm
Year:2024

A thoughtful contemporary painting that blends urban architecture with symbolic imagery. Featuring a soaring yellow bird above a sweeping overbridge, the artwork reflects themes of freedom, progress, and emotional connection within the modern world. Its bold composition and earthy palette create a visually powerful and contemplative presence.

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Ashoke Mullick | Over Bridge | Acrylic on Canvas | 42 x 36 inches | 2024

This striking contemporary artwork beautifully captures the intersection of urban growth and human emotion through a poetic visual narrative. A sweeping overbridge cuts across the landscape with quiet authority, symbolizing movement, progress, and the ever-changing rhythm of modern life. Yet above this structured world soars a luminous yellow bird — free, weightless, and full of hope — creating a powerful contrast between nature’s spirit and man-made expansion.

Rendered in earthy greens, muted greys, and bold architectural forms, the painting carries a reflective mood. The layered cityscape beneath the bridge hints at unseen lives and hidden stories, while the flowing road invites the viewer into a journey of transition and possibility. The artist’s expressive use of shape and color transforms an ordinary urban scene into something deeply emotional and symbolic. This artwork speaks to themes of freedom, resilience, and the coexistence of humanity with the evolving modern landscape.

I like to depict the modern times when people have lost all human contact and have become mechanised. They read newspapers, pick up some jargon and communicate most of the time by telephone. As a painter, I throw light on these aspects where traditions are breaking down and the relationship between generations is getting lost.

Ashoke Mullick is considered one of the leading painters from the Bengal School of Art. Mullick combines a sense of satire with contemporary conditions. His paintings focus strongly on the ordinary man and the contradictions he faces.

Sometimes the look is satiric at other times, it is compassionate, says Mullick of his own works. He uses colours like greens and blues to depict a largely urban India.

Mullick was educated at the Fine Arts Government College, Kolkata. He was greatly fascinated and influenced by works of painters like Gaganendranath Tagore. I was also influenced by German Expressionism that linked art to life. The effects I create are intentional and I want them to become a part of visual experience, he says.

He mostly works in oil on canvas, because as he says, That’s the medium which let’s me experiment the most and which helps me to depict modern life, which in some ways is surrealistic.


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