| Medium | : | Acrylic |
|---|---|---|
| Height | : | 30 inch / 76.2 cm |
| Width | : | 36 inch / 91.4 cm |
| Surface | : | Canvas |
| Style | : | Figurative Paintings, Landscapes |
| Dimension | : | W: 91.4 cm × H: 76.2 cm |
| Year | : | 2007 |
Prokash Karmakar’s Untitled (2007) is a vibrant and imaginative painting featuring a majestic green tree, colourful human figures, and a glowing red sun. Through bold outlines, expressive forms, and rhythmic landscape strokes, the artist creates a dreamlike world filled with warmth and movement. A lively work that beautifully reflects Karmakar’s distinctive approach to colour, nature, and storytelling.
Prokash Karmakar | Untitled | Acrylic on Canvas | 30 x 36 inches | 2007
Prokash Karmakar’s Untitled (2007) is a captivating and imaginative composition that brings together the beauty of nature, the rhythm of the landscape, and the playful presence of human figures. At the centre of the painting stands a large, expressive tree, its deep green foliage spreading across the canvas with an almost sculptural presence. Beneath its branches, three colourful figures appear to move through the landscape, creating a scene that feels both dreamlike and full of life.
The warm red, yellow, and earthy orange tones of the figures and land contrast beautifully with the cool blue and white horizontal strokes of the water. Above them, a glowing red sun surrounded by yellow light adds warmth and a sense of timelessness. The distant landscape, with its flowing lines and stylised forms, creates a feeling of movement, as though nature itself is gently unfolding.
What makes this work especially engaging is Karmakar’s distinctive visual language. His bold black outlines, expressive forms, and carefully layered colours give the painting a sense of folk-inspired simplicity while retaining the energy of modern artistic expression. The figures appear almost like characters from a timeless story, inviting the viewer to imagine their own narrative.
There is a wonderful sense of freedom in this painting. It feels like a moment suspended between dream and reality, where nature, people, and imagination exist together in harmony. A vibrant and characterful work, it would make a meaningful addition to a collection of modern Indian art, bringing warmth, movement, and a poetic sense of storytelling into any space.
Prokash Karmakar’s art emerged from a contemplation of life, through the prism of personal traumatic experiences intermingled with dark moments in india’s recent history.
He learnt painting at his father, artist-teacher Prahlad Karmakar’s atelier, till the socio-political turmoil of the 1940s and his father’s early death put an end to it.
After his matriculation, Karmakar joined Government College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta, but quit soon thereafter for reasons of poverty. In between, he designed book covers and worked as an illustrator for his livelihood; he even joined the army but absconded after two years, driven by his desire to paint.
Karmakar learnt the techniques of transparent and opaque watercolours from Kamalaranjan Thakur, a former student of his father, and Dilip Das Gupta. However, it was senior artist Nirode Majumdar—once a student of Abanindranath Tagore—who acquainted Karmakar with artistic and philosophical concepts, techniques, coherence of lines, and the breaking of form. Majumdar had recently returned from France after a stay of twelve years, and shared his rich experience with his protégé.
Karmakar held his first exhibition in 1959 on the railings of Indian Museum, Calcutta. In 1969-70, Karmakar visited France on a fellowship to study art museums, an inspiring exposure for the expressionist artist who, being ‘primarily a colourist’, began to create his figurative monochrome paintings in the 1970s. He won the Lalit Kala Akademi’s national award in 1968, and his work is part of important collections globally.
He passed away on 24 February 2014.
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