Sudip Roy
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Sudip Roy was born in Kolkata
in West Bengal
. He pursued arts in Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata
and finished as the Gold Medallist. His early works included watercolors, pencil sketches, charcoals and a heady series of landscapes done in limpid line drawings. Over the years he mastered the art of the watercolour but he soon moved from landscapes to studies of people and architectural facades in historic monuments and temples. It was in the mid 90’s that he moved to the capial city of New Delhi. His first solo show at Art Today sold out. Sudip Roy who has created realist figurative and monumental works turns to the matrix of moody momentousness. He started doing large abstracted works that reflected the times of day. You espie the grooves and limpid passages of the intentions of the mind in a celebratory set of works that read like fragments from time. Capacious sweeps of colour,drawing simultaneously on inert perceptions with a light hand and the dulcet design of colour's vapid vacuous tonality these works are as if Sudip adds a footnote to the history of abandoning,realism and merging into the magic of Abstract Expressionism. He is famed for his watercolours of the Benares series. Older works have more resale value,his understanding of landscape and atmospherics is unmatched by anyone else in the nation.He lives and works in Delhi
. He is the first Indian artist who created and painted the baby BMW
for the German company. It was a quaint marriage of art and business in a recession. Sudip Roy walked in the footsteps of great artists in the West as he painted a baby BMW
to reflect a gay abandon of modernist moods. Blended as a moody spring of contour and colour the little baby BMW
became an enduring symbol of a BMW
art car. This work of art straddles expressionist as well as maximal instincts, in this Sudip he abandons an insistent flatness in favor of three-dimensionality, turning from the canvas to a series of densely coloured fragments delineated by strong contours. The contours are a strain of softly curvilinear austere geometry evolving into elaborate and seemingly spontaneous constructions. This foray into three-dimensional work eventually develops the baby BMW
into a splendid art car with a hint of amorphous instincts.
Kolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
in West Bengal
West Bengal
West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
. He pursued arts in Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata
Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata
The Government College of Art & Craft in Kolkata is one of the oldest Art colleges in India. It was founded on August 16, 1854 at Garanhata, Chitpur, "with the purpose of establishing an institution for teaching the youth of all classes, industrial art based on scientific methods." as the School of...
and finished as the Gold Medallist. His early works included watercolors, pencil sketches, charcoals and a heady series of landscapes done in limpid line drawings. Over the years he mastered the art of the watercolour but he soon moved from landscapes to studies of people and architectural facades in historic monuments and temples. It was in the mid 90’s that he moved to the capial city of New Delhi. His first solo show at Art Today sold out. Sudip Roy who has created realist figurative and monumental works turns to the matrix of moody momentousness. He started doing large abstracted works that reflected the times of day. You espie the grooves and limpid passages of the intentions of the mind in a celebratory set of works that read like fragments from time. Capacious sweeps of colour,drawing simultaneously on inert perceptions with a light hand and the dulcet design of colour's vapid vacuous tonality these works are as if Sudip adds a footnote to the history of abandoning,realism and merging into the magic of Abstract Expressionism. He is famed for his watercolours of the Benares series. Older works have more resale value,his understanding of landscape and atmospherics is unmatched by anyone else in the nation.He lives and works in Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
. He is the first Indian artist who created and painted the baby BMW
BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...
for the German company. It was a quaint marriage of art and business in a recession. Sudip Roy walked in the footsteps of great artists in the West as he painted a baby BMW
BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...
to reflect a gay abandon of modernist moods. Blended as a moody spring of contour and colour the little baby BMW
BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...
became an enduring symbol of a BMW
BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...
art car. This work of art straddles expressionist as well as maximal instincts, in this Sudip he abandons an insistent flatness in favor of three-dimensionality, turning from the canvas to a series of densely coloured fragments delineated by strong contours. The contours are a strain of softly curvilinear austere geometry evolving into elaborate and seemingly spontaneous constructions. This foray into three-dimensional work eventually develops the baby BMW
BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...
into a splendid art car with a hint of amorphous instincts.