Check out his work by Googling his name, or start here - http://artwanted.com/artist.cfm?artid=44308
Image (c) Shomi Banerjee.
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Shomi Banerjee
Check out his work by Googling his name, or start here - http://artwanted.com/artist.cfm?artid=44308
Image (c) Shomi Banerjee.
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ReplyDelete@Srin: Says who?
ReplyDeleteSays me. I follow Indian contemporary art, work for an art magazine and I study art. There is nothing in this artists work that is solely his and his alone. There are many more like him (mostly fine arts students) who paint in the same medium, with the same style. All artists who are written about "in posterity" (and not just worth a lot of money) are those who have something unique, either in thought, representation, style or politics. If you follow contemporary Indian art you will see that all of those things (ie, style, modes of representation, media, thought, politics) have evolved and moved far beyond anything that Mr. Banerjee has in his works. Aesthetic appeal is perhaps the least considered parameter of works that are worth writing about.
ReplyDelete@Srin: First, spouting degrees and work experience doesn't exactly work on me when I've seen your Facebook statuses complaining about the difficulty of reading actual textbooks rather than Wikipedia!
ReplyDeleteSecond, I apologize for talking about posterity. After all, what IS history except the fiction spun by the majority? As a thinking, feeling subject who has enjoyed looking at Mr Banerjee's art, perhaps all I can do is alert people to the fact that he exists in the first place, and humbly beg them to cast a glance along his way... perhaps spare a struggling artist a few pennies. Right?
It's true that aesthetic appeal is passé today. I guess that makes me passé too, but I'll live with that. In a world where placing a pot in a cardboard imitation of outer space (and yes, I saw this with my own eyes at the Centre Pompidou, Beaubourg, Paris a month ago) is considered art, I'm happy with canvases, paper and tapestries.
I think that flaunting one's professional credentials to legitimate or validate one's statements rather than coming up with an argument or explanation in support of one's opinion is probably little more than snobbery. You are no authority, and even if you were you would have to do more than flaunt your pretty feathers in order to prove your point. Whether you like it or not, that is the rule of the game.
ReplyDeletemy comment is directed @ spin ...
ReplyDeleteArijit, I did have an argument, how did you miss it?
ReplyDeleteSukhaloka, reading has little to do with understanding art, which I definitely do. Furthermore, I did not "spout" degrees or work experience, I mentioned them to validate my position since I generally keep my work/ academic life off social networking sites and I wanted you to know that my opinion of this man's works was created out of a certain context that I do know something about. And I know about it in some detail and depth obviously because of work/ university. I wrote my comment directed at what you said about the artist being written about for posterity. A lot of people who are not written about also sell, because while aesthetic appeal might not be imperative in the writing of art, buyers do look out for things that please the eye, as you said. I wish you would not put words in my mouth, I did not say aesthetic appeal was passe, I said that it was considered after style, politics, thought, representation when art writers/ critics write about art for posterity.