You are here: MaxAbout.com > People

Jahar Dasgupta

Personal Profile

Jahar Dasgupta
  • Date of Birth:
    January 1, 1942
  • Place of Birth:
    Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    Indian

Family

Jahar Dasgupta

    Career

    Jahar Dasgupta

    Trivia

    Jahar Dasgupta
    • Shakti Chatterjee wrote a poem on his sketch on the releasing of a book “Poem on Paintings” in the Silver Jubilee of Painters’ Orchestra, 1994.
    • His work has been featured in the Bengali Magazine Shatak Ekush, and is the subject of a documentary film, Bornomoy Jahar, directed by Sandip Ray.
    • Is President of the artists' group Painters' Orchestra.
    • Is Vice President of the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata and a founder member of Sijuti Art Gallery.
    • Has participated in KalaMela organized by Lalit Kala Academy and the Democratic Painters and Writers Association.
    • Was invited as a member of Millennium committee to organize an exhibition and workshop under Biswa Banga Sammelan in 1999.
    • Is also influenced by the work of Binod Behari Mukherjee.
    • Influences on his work include his teachers Nandalal Bose and Ramkinkar Baij.
    • Completed his further studies in painting from Kala Bhavan, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan in 1964.
    • Born in Jamshedpur in 1942 is an artist.

    Biography

    Jahar Dasgupta
    Last Updated: Wednesday, May 20, 2009

    Jahar Dasgupta was born in Jamshedpur ( TataNagar, Jharkhand, India) in the year 1942. He was admitted to Kalabhavan, Shantiniketan and took his primary lessons under legendary mentors like Ramkinkar Baiz and Benode Bihari Mukherjee. He passed from VisvaBharati in the year 1964. He uses soft but bright colors in his paintings and rebellious in his own world by reconstructing the barriers between traditional and contemporary art. For his subject of work Jahar Dasgupta has chosen women as an integral part of all of his paintings and nature comes just after.

    Jahar Dasgupta has done many solo exhibitions as well as group shows and was invited as artist from several parts of India and abroad. He attended workshops in different places of West Bengal, Delhi, Tripura, Hyderabad and Andaman & Nikobar. He was also one of the founder members of Painters` Orchestra.

    Submit Content