Gautam Paul
Kolkata, West Bengal. Kolkata, India
About Gautam Paul
I born in Kolkata of India 3rd March 1965.I, Sri Gautam Paul, was born in Kolkata, The metropolis of the state of West Bengal in India.From my boyhood days various creative activities like drawing, painting, composing poems and singing songs attracted my interest and attention, Consequently I joined the Govt. College of Art and Craft and got my BVA degree in 1990.Initially I did not feel like engaging myself wholeheartedly in drawing and painting out casually I displayed my concern on those. I had an ardent desire to become an Art Director in any Advertisement Agency of repute.Subsequently I joined Ogilvy & Mather Company to earn my living.I got a tremendous set back in my plans and programmes in 1998 when my father left this land of living. I was then quite in the lurch. I saw death from very close for the first time in my life. I was overwhelmed with grief and suddenly I had my further realization about this material world.This realization of this heavenly bliss which my father could enjoy by this death and stern realistic of this mortal world made my metal make up to express myself in a different manner through my paintings.My paintings heart, the testimony of my inner feelings of a duality between darkness and light, between real and unreal between bliss and sufferings, between weal and woe. In award that can be described as a combination of the opposites. My products express that eternal conflict between acceptance and protest, contentment and dissatisfaction. I like to make man conscious about this divine discontent through my works.I hope to receive wider support in my mission. If I can win the heart of my viewers and the critics of my works, I shall deem it a heavenly gift bestowed on me by the providence which would inspire me to lead a peaceful life amidst this discordant and conflicting world of today.My Commitments to ArtAt the very outset, I like to mention that a man must be true to his own self, family, society, country as well as to the mother earth that provides a formative nurture to him.I feel myself to be a very fortunate being to have always strived to have my real becoming by fulfilling my commitments to art. No denying that the present day society presents very many disparities amidst the wider verities of various sorts. It also depicts confusion and contradictions as well as discordance among people living in the same country. All these make our mother earth suffering from various ills and evils, affluence and poverty, high and low, brightness and darkness. Still there is a tune of harmony present in her which binds up people with all difference with a string of soothing melody, a feeling of great solace and an inspiration for rejuvenation. That is expressive art of manifold ramifications.I dare to confess that from my very early period of life, I became or aware of two things particularly. They are my commitments and my sense of justice. These two have taught me to protest against any misdeed that endangers peoples life and brings discordance between man and man.When I became a professional artist, I chose to remain true to my own being and shaped my mental set to fight against those fissiparous tendencies that make human beings more animals than human. The stern realities of this age and place have forced me to depict there in my drawings and paintings.There are contradictions, conflicts, significant color display and particular form to signify the perennial struggle between opposites. Sometimes the works mine of became abstract, mysterious expressions. But those pieces do express or manifest my basic commitments to my professional ethics and sense of morality in me.I have unshaken faith in my sense of commitments which prompts me to carry on continuous efforts to keep a balance between the two opposite elements in man.Lastly I venture with all humility to remain a committed artist where eland vital would be dedicate to sing the gospel of humanity so long as I would remain in this land of living.
Education:
Qualification : B. V. A. Passed in the year 1989 from the Govt. College of Art & Craft,
under University of Calcutta.
Artistic Experience including number of years studying and working:
Certificate of Merit Award for calendar 1988-89
Award for outstanding work for poster design 1989-90
Illustrator cum Visualizer under Ogilvy & Mather 1991-98
Events:
Participated in the Workshop organized by Indian National Forum of Art and Culture, 2006-2007.
Participated in the Charukala Barsik Pradarshani O Utsav in 2008 & 2009 organized by Govt. of West Bengal at Kolkata.
Participated in the Birla Academy of Art & Culture Annual Exhibition in 2008, 2009 at Kolkata.
Participated in the Academy Annual Exhibition in 1993, 2008, 2009 at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata.
Exhibitions:
Participated in a Group Exhibition at Birla Academy of Art & Culture in 2009 at Kolkata.
Participated in Solo Exhibition 2010 in Royal Tunbridge Wells Library Museum and Art Gallery, Civic Centre – Mount Pleasant – Royal Tunbridge Wells – TN1 1JN
Participated in solo exhibition 2012 in Hastings Arts Forums East Sussex England.
Participated in solo exhibition 2016 in Academy of Fine Arts Kolkata INDIA.
