| Medium | : | Charcoal, Tempera |
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| Height | : | 48 inch / 121.9 cm |
| Width | : | 36 inch / 91.4 cm |
| Surface | : | Canvas, Rice Paper |
| Style | : | Figurative Paintings |
| Dimension | : | W: 91.4 cm × H: 121.9 cm |
A deeply immersive cityscape by Subha Basu, where crowded urban life gradually opens into distant green fields. Rich in detail and quiet emotion, the work captures the beauty, density, and subtle longing within a growing city.
Subha Basu | So Far from Green | Tempera & Charcoal on Rice Paper & Canvas | 48 x 36 inches
In this expansive and intricately detailed work by Subha Basu, the city feels alive — almost as if it’s breathing. At first glance, it’s a dense urban landscape, layered with buildings, streets, rail lines, and quiet human presences. But the longer you stay with it, the more it begins to unfold like a story.
The foreground draws you into a cluster of homes and terraces, where life happens in small, intimate moments — a figure by a window, someone walking down a narrow lane, another pausing on a balcony. The architecture is rendered with careful linework and softened color blocks, giving each structure its own personality while still feeling part of a collective rhythm.
As your eyes travel outward, the city stretches endlessly — buildings packed tightly together, intersected by roads and railway tracks that seem to carry both movement and memory. And then, almost like a quiet revelation, the dense greys and ochres give way to open green fields in the distance. This transition feels emotional, as though the city itself is yearning for space, for breath, for something it has slowly moved away from.
Executed in tempera and charcoal on rice paper and canvas, the work carries a tactile richness — fine lines, subtle textures, and a muted yet harmonious palette. There’s a gentle tension between chaos and calm, crowd and solitude, construction and nature. It doesn’t just show a place — it reflects a feeling many recognize: being surrounded by life, yet quietly longing for openness.
Born – 1982 at Kolkata. B.V.A from The Indian College of Art & Draftsmanship in 2006, M.F.A from R.B.U in 2008. Participate more than 40 Group Show in Kolkata, New Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore,Mumbai, New-york. Receive many award including AIFACS award, State academy award, Camel Art Foundation award etc. Participate many Art Camp including Jodhpur Art Camp (org. by Bodhi Tree Monastery of Art), AIFACS Camp at New Delhi, National Camp (org. by WZCC Govt. of India and Art & Culture Dept. Govt. of Goa) at Panji, Goa etc. Now I working as a freelance Artist staying at Kolkata.
ABOUT :
To him art is nothing but an application of realized truth. He think an Artist wants to frame his or her daily experience either consciously or subconsciously. In this way an Art object becomes a cultural document of time.
Generally he wants to frame my daily experiences in his work. Objective depication gives a subjective expression in his work. consciously or subconsciously the subject of his work have been collected from my surroundings. The figures of his painting are partly moulded in three dimensional form (through in most cases they are neither painted in their local colours nor is the execution method of this three dimensionality academic western style dependent), Using the ‘mode of relief ‘ style of painting. Every time he begin on painted flat surface. When he draw on that painted flat surface he used to play with them. His images go through many transformations till they got their final shape. For the sake of composition he have stretched his creative liberty to extent of arranging figures even up site down. Generally he used some bright colour on a mat surface. Which represents bright and darkness of our life.
He think my images are representative of an entire class of society where he belong.
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