New artwork uploaded.... This is a set of 4 paintings on the theme of Kashi.
Traditional etymology links "Varanasi" to the names of two Ganges tributaries forming the city's borders: Varuna, still flowing in northern Varanasi, and Assi, today a small stream in the southern part of the city, near Assi Ghat. The old city...
New artwork uploaded.... This is a Acrylic on Canvas painting by acclaimed artist Tapas Ghosal on the perpetual theme of Varanasi. Traditional etymology links "Varanasi" to the names of two Ganges tributaries forming the city's borders: Varuna, still flowing in northern Varanasi, and Assi, today a small stream in the...
New artwork uploaded.... This large composition reflects meditative structural spaces that echo and inner silence. The artist conjures up the Varanasi of his imagination, a town with fluttering penants, jagged edges, a multitude of temples and steps that wander in and out of light and shadows. The ancient holy city with...
New artwork uploaded.... Tapas Ghosal's paintings based on Varanasi portray a temporal and spiritual dimension. They reflect meditative structural spaces that echo an inner silence and extract mystic, melodic vibrations. The contrast of red, blue and ochre make it a resplendent, almost magical composition....
Tapas graduated in Painting with a First Class First from Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata, 1989; and received his post graduate in Painting from Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi (First Class). His Varanasi works reflect a temporal and spiritual dimension. The pastel shaded images are semblances of an isolated image of what the artist perceives beneath the bustling activities there. His current series of paintings create meditative structural spaces, melancholic in nature which enter into the inner realm of reality and extract a kind of mystic, melodic silence.
