Animal instinct: In black ‘n’ white

Painter Subhamaya Biswal explaining his work to art lovers

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BHUBANESWAR: The chief protagonist of Living Colors, a five-day solo art exhibition, launched in the city Wednesday, was a young painter from BK College of Art and Craft. Display of a variety of Subhamaya Biswal’s animal sketches was the sole objective of the exhibition. Mute animals which cannot express their feelings are delineated through visual imagery to perfection. Cows, horde of crows, singular bull, goat and other animals are.

Biswal, a fourth year painting student, who is delighted to be the hero of the solo exhibition, said humanitarian aspect of life has been showcased vividly in various exhibitions, but the animal nature seldom comes into art or craft. “They too love the world like we do. They have feelings of joy, sorrow and separation. I have tried to touch upon such rare emotions in my maiden exhibition. My medium is charcoal metal which has given scope to black-and-white depiction of animal feelings,’’ says Biswal with a broad smile. “Showing an expression with black colour is very difficult. But the choice of colour is deliberate in this expo, because many animals are colour blind.

The task of showing varied emotions through this colour is challenging. Also black is the best to manifest an animal emotion,” added Biswal. DGP (Prisons) Bijay Kumar
Sharma, who was the chief guest at the expo, had a word of appreciation for Biswal’s paintings and the medium adopted by him. “There is need for constant promotion and encouragement of such art,“ he commented. Subhamaya’s arts teacher Manas Jena hinted at an arts training programme for the inmates of various jails in the state with the sole objective of bringing attitudinal change in their life. DGP Sharma, who was party to the proposal to train the prisoners, hoped an exhibition will be the concluding part of the training.