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| Sunil Das | |
| Born: | 1939, Calcutta. |
| Art education: | Govt. College of Art & Craft, Calcutta; Ecole National Superior de Beaux Arts; Atelier Julien and Atelier 17, Paris. (French Govt. Scholarship.) |
| Present Occupation: | Service. |
| Exhibitions participated in: | Solo and group shows in India and abroad since 1959. Participated in a number of art camps since 1960. International exhibitions a number of times since 1960. |
| Awards: | National Award, 1978; French Govt. Scholar ship, 1960; a number of awards from various organisations in India. |
| Jury / commissioner: | Prix Des Enterangeers, Paris and Central Lalit Kala Akademi, N. Delhi. Commissioner of IV Triennale, India. Commissioner of Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil, 1989. |
| Visited abroad on invitation: | USA, London and Paris. |
| Collection: | Galleries, museums and private collections in India and abroad. Founder member of SCA, Member, Society Des Amis Du Museum National D Art Modene, Paris, 1960 |
| Mail to: | 10C, Rajani Bhattacharjee Lane, Calcutta - 700026, Ph: 42-5771. |
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"From the day when people began to see me as a painter, responsibility came upon me to respond to the feelings of people at the grassroots of the society as also to delve deep into the realities of life around me. To express this reality sometimes I have to reorient a particular set of sense-data, received through normal perception, to create an image which does not bear one-to-one correspondence with the image formed by a naive man, receiving a similar set of sense-data.
To express my authentic feelings about the reality, I have to interpret it, I have to conceptualise it. The perceived reality gets transformed in the laboratory of my mind. Then, I bring this out on the canvas. This may not conform to the native realist's view
point. But, to remain true to myself, I cannot but express my inner being this way." |
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