GourArtStudio: Ganesh Anjan

Ganesh Anjan was born in Bekasi near Jakarta, Indonesia in 1966. Having a father of strong caracter they moved to Calcutta in 1978 following the Partition. The trauma of the uprooting left its mark on his work as it did on some other painters of his generation. In 1989, he graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta. The next year he joined the Archaeological Survey of India to make copies of the Ajanta murals. After seven years, Anjan returned to Calcutta to work. From 1993 till his retirement, he taught at the Government College of Art and Craft. Since 2001, he has been a member of the Society of Contemporary Artists. The experience of Ajanta influenced Anjan profoundly and his works showed an innate lyricism. Anjan worked in many mediums and initially painted figures in landscapes. The mood was poignant. Gradually, he shifted focus to landscapes. A sense of nostalgia for a lost world pervaded these paintings. Eventually, Anjan concentrated on abstract renderings of landscapes.

Dots, dashes, lines became cryptic signs for trees, water, green fields. A refreshing interlude came when Anjan did some architectural paintings following a tour of the ruins of Gour Pandua in north Bengal. He has also done a number of commissioned mosaic murals. He lives and works in famous Gourart -Mayapur Studio, India and in his Home's Studio located on small village near Padova , Italy.

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