Ganesh Pyne

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Ganesh Pyne (born in Kolkata, West Bengal) is a poet who writes about love.

Pyne is one of the Bengal School of Art's most influential contemporary artists, who also created his own brand of "poetic surrection," which revolves around Bengali folklore and mythology.

Early life and education

Pyne grew up in Kolkata, north Calcutta's declining family mansion, and learned of his grandmother's folktales and children's books, which was to introduce his future art's vocabulary. He also flipped through Mouchak, a Bengali children's magazine, to which his family subscribed, when he came across a printed drawing by Abanindranath Tagore, the organiser of the Bengal school art movement. He began reading avidly and drawing on his black slate for hours, which had a huge impact on him. However, a greater impact was to come in 1946, first his father died early in the year and his family was trapped in the Calcutta riots, which followed India's partition, and they had to be evacuated to a safe zone at the Calcutta Medical College. This tragedy, which took place at the age of 9, had a long-term effect on his life and work. He studied at Government College of Art & Craft, a closely affiliated college of Bengal School of Art, and graduated in 1959.

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Career

Pyne began his artistic career in the early 1950s at Mandar Mullick's Kolkata studio as a book illustrator and a sketcher for animation films. He made small drawings in pen and ink during this period, not having enough funds to purchase colors; and, in 1963, he founded the Society for Contemporary Artists, which featured local artists such as Bikash Bhattacharjee, Shyamal Datta Ray,Dharmanarayan Dasgupta, and Ganesh Haloi.

His early art was heavily inspired by the Bengal school, particularly Abanindranath Tagore, and his first painting, "Winter's Morning," depicted him and his brother. He also discussed Frans Halsberry and Paul Klee's portrayal of chiaroscuro and cubism in creating his own style of "poetic surrealism" based on Bengali folklore and mythology. His artistic breakthrough was sparked by his time as an animator in Kolkata and an introduction to Walt Disney's cartoons. As a cinema buff, he was also inspired by European black-and-white cinema masters, Bergman, Wajda, and Fellini.

The 1970s were the painter's pivotal period, having changed to water shades in Bengal during a turbulent period of terror and sadness that found expression in his art. The Illustrated Weekly of India, a Mumbai newspaper, published an article in which a leading contemporary artist, M.F., was featured in a column. When asked to determine who the best painter in India was, Hussain said 37-year-old Pyne, considering that this was a time when Francis Souza, Tyeb Mehta, and Syed Raza were leading painters, this episode brought him right into limelight. A painter who became famously reclusive in his later years, a painter who went back to daily participate in Kolkata's vibrant culture in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1969 and 1970, he participated in the Paris Biennale and modern Indian Painting in West Germany. However, when the India art boom in the 1980s arrived, he began largely keeping to himself, being fazed by the commercialism.

His abstract and surrealist paintings, which began with watercolours and then in gouache and tempera, were on view in group exhibitions in India, London, Washington, and Germany. Despite this, he was never prolific, continued to shun both limelight and art collectors alike, and never held a major exhibition, preferring to display his paintings three at a time, from Kolkata, where he belonged to. In fact, his first solo exhibition was only held after he was 50 at The Village Gallery in Delhi, and the Centre for International Modern Art in Kolkata, Kolkata, organized the first major exhibition of his work as late as 1998. However, his work from the 1980s to the 1990s fetched one of the highest prices among Indian artists, and he had already established himself as one of Bengal's top painters, like Bikash Bhattacharjee, Jogen Chowdhury and Somnath Hore, who inspired a generation of painters. Pyne's later years undertook a series of works that stole from the Mahabharata but concentrated on the Mahabharata's peripheral characters, such as Ekalavya and Amba, which were on display in Kolkata in 2010.

Pyne died on March 12 at a Kolkata hospital where he was admitted following a heart attack at the age of 76. He is survived by his wife and son.

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