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DIED
2023 Kolkata

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
Self-taught Artist

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Painters' Perception of Images and Symbols, Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata
Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
West Bengal State University, Kolkata
Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi
Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Kolkata - 300 Years, Purnima Productions, Kolkata
Kolkata through the eyes of the painter, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata

PARTICIPATIONS
Asian art exhibition, Japan
Contemporary Art Exhibition, South Korea
Contemporary Indian Art Exhibition, Netherlands
Busan Biennale, South Korea

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Manoj Dutta, a self-taught artist, explored the traditions of Indian folk art through his works. His admiration for popular artists and their spontaneity is reflected in the immediacy and directness of his work. Dutta's carefully selected color palette creates a harmonious balance of depth, texture, and shadow. His works are often characterized by their eloquent depictions of a singular mood or emotion portrayed through his diverse color palette and fluid use of lines.

Manoj Dutta's art rediscovers and enriches the traditional two-dimensional format of Indianness found in folk art. His paintings and pastels bloom with luminous effusions of some consonant colors, structured in subtle textures, variations, and nuances of tone and shade, to enhance his stylized and deceptively simple images of him. The predominant color with which he creates a theme, whether blue, red, violet, or other, is expanded to form a fine symphony of depth and shadow to frame images of him in impeccably conceptualized designs with integrated detail.

His delineation of images, whether with pencil or brush, is equally simple, fluid, and infinitely eloquent. Images of him can stand out expressively against bare or delicately muted backgrounds, retreat artfully behind vigorous line shading, or even freeze mid-motion in a stylized format. But they are always enlivened by a singular mood, which can become whimsical, humorous, introspective, or moving, whether with nostalgia or with memories or beauty collected in tranquility.

There are pronounced elements of folk art in my paintings, although their content is my experience of the contemporary reality around me. Folk form and feeling come to my paintings as naturally as the melody of folk songs that spring from the depths of the folk singer's heart. I try to achieve the same simplicity and directness in my work.

Dutta participated in numerous national and international exhibitions in Kolkata, Mumbai, Japan, and South Korea. His work is part of the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, and the Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta.

Notification - We do not usually display Manoj Dutta's work, only send it to private art collectors and interested art buyers.

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