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The Art

Jogen

Chowdhury

Jogen Chowdhury occupies a distinctive Born in 1939 in Faridpur, Bengal, Jogen position in modern Indian art through his Chowdhury studied at the Government

ability to blur the conventional distinction

College of Art and Crafts, Kolkata, from

between drawing and painting. In his practice,

line, colour, surface, and figuration function

1955-60, followed by a stint at L’Ecole

together as an expressive visual language

Nationale Superior des Beax-Arts, Paris,

through which personal memory, historical

in 1965-57 on a French Government

trauma, social violence, and psychological

Scholarship. He was appointed as a textile

experience are explored. His art is deeply rooted in the realities of Bengal and India, particularly designer on the Handloom Board in the Bengal famine, Partition, communal violence, Chennai. In 1970, he joined the Calcutta

political instability, and social inequality. Painters Group. His first collection of poems However, his works rarely illustrate these Hridoy Train Beje Othey was also published

events directly. Instead, historical experiences are transformed through distortion, symbolism,

in the same year.

irony, and formal experimentation into images

He quit his job at the Madras Handloom

with broader human significance.

Board in 1972 to join the Art Gallery of

The human figure is central to Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi as a Curator.

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