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"Ramananda" - Feb 2nd to 19th, 2006


One may well say that beyond the ordinary cultivation of the aesthetic instinct necessary to all artistic appreciation, there is a spiritual insight or culture needed if we are to enter into the whole meaning of Indian artistic creation, otherwise we get only at the surface external things or at the most at things just below the surface. It is an intuitive and spiritual art and must be seen with the intuitive and spiritual eye.

This is the distinctive character of Indian art and to ignore it is to fall into total incomprehension or much misunderstanding. Indian architecture, painting, sculpture are not only intimately one in inspiration with the central things in Indian philosophy, religion, Yoga, culture, but a specially intense expression of their significance. There is much in the literature which can be well enough appreciated without any very deep entry into these things, but it is comparitively a very small part of what is left of the other arts, Hindu or Buddhistic, of which this can be said. They have been very largely a hieratic aesthetic script of India's spiritual, contemplative and religious experience.... - Sri Aurobindo

 
 
Galerie La Mere is happy to present to discerning lovers of Bengal art, this solo exhibition of Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, who combines in his work the true tradition with the spontaniety of contemporary articulation.







 
 

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