5th December, 2019, Chandigarh Lalit Kala
organised an audio visual presentation by Paresh Maity at the auditorium of Govt.
Museum and Art Gallery.
The presentation began with the screening of a film made by
him on Rajasthan. This was a Rajasthan as viewed by Paresh from the lens of a camera
portraying the love for this desert land and inspiration of his numerous
paintings. The people and their daily life ;fairs, festival in all its vividness and bright colours is
brought forth to the audience, showing astute sense of observation in capturing
the details of this rustic, romantic landscape. What strikes you is this man
who does not miss even the minutest of detail; manages so skilfully to portray
in brevity, the essence of his vision on the canvas.
Paresh Maity started his journey into the world of art with
water colours. Later an urge to
undertake art works at a much larger scale, he made a shift to canvas painting,
the small size of water colour paper being a limitation to his creative
process.
The artist being a sensitive
soul is ever influenced by the surroundings. It was a visit to Rajasthan that
took him to an odyssey of colour. His earlier water colours of lush green
fields and water bodies of Bengal were taken over the bright colours of this
land, the red, yellows and blue. Along with the colour came the sights and
sounds, the camel, the horse …all moved into his canvas frame; Illuminated by
his favourite lantern - the celebrations, the fairs and life of the people, and
to depict all that he saw; the human figure took centre stage in his art work.
His art seemingly is an extension of him, his persona reflecting
in all its brilliance on his canvas, depicting ‘The Colourful World of Paresh
Maity’.
