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| Ganesh Haloi | |
| Born: | 1936, Jamalpur (Bangladesh). |
| Art education: | Government College of Art & Crafts, Calcutta, 1956 |
| Present Occupation: | Teaching at the Government College of Art & Crafts, Calcutta |
| Solo Exhibition: | Four shows in Calcutta. |
| Group show: | Several group show in the principal cities of the country. |
| Award: | Late R.N. Chakraborty Memorial Gold Medal; Seven Silver Medals from Calcutta University Institute; Seven Gold Medals from AFA; Cash Prize, from Lathan Foundation U.S.A.; Ministry of Health Government of India; Rabindra Bharati. Siromani Puraskar. Member of SCA since 1971. |
| Mail to: | AE 420, Sector 1; Salt Lake, Calcutta-700 064. |
| Quote-Unquote | |
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"The rich and varied experience of our life moulds to a great extent the shape of things to come in our mature age. It is like a tree that owes its growth as much to the sky as to the ground on which it stands firmly rooted. What derives from soil and what it draws from light and air both enable the tree to bear fruits and flowers. So is the case of an artist. What sustains him all through his creative life is the sensibility he inherits or acquires as a child. The child’s sensibility matures as he grows up and quietly motivates all his creative activity in his advanced age. That is why creativity is a conscious process. Without this continuity there would be nothing original in the artist’s achievement, no unity underlying all the diverse works he creates at different phases of life from the early years till the grand old age. All our ceaseless and joyous perceptions of the mighty world of eyes and ear with its infinite variety take on diverse ‘bea uteous forms’ deep down in our mind under the stress of ever changing moods and moments. But it is in our nature that we try to free ourselves from the rigid mould of habitual perception - to take a fresh look at everything visual or conceptual.
My painting is an aspiration for such freedom." |
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