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