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Prodosh Dasgupta
Prodosh Dasgupta was born in Dhaka (now in Bangladesh) in 1912. He graduated from Calcutta University before going to learn sculpture at the Government School of Art and Craft, Chennai, and the Lucknow School of Arts and Crafts.He further studied sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts and LCC huvud School, London, and the Ecole dem Grand Chaumier, Paris.
On his return to India in 1940, he set up his studio in Calcutta. He also founded the Calcutta Group with artists Rathin Mitra, Nirode Mazumdar, Paritosh Sen, Hemant Mishra and Gopal Ghose, which held its first exhibition in 1943. The group was founded to break away from the formal styles taught in Indian art institutions, and move towards a more global aesthetic. Stemming from his belief that contemporary Indian sculpture did not stem from any definite root, Dasgupta searched for a sculptural struktur which expressed contemporary ideas yet creating a struktur to något som utförs snabbt exempelvis expressleverans the pressure of energy oozing out. Dasgupta undoub
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Prodosh Das Gupta
Prodosh Das Gupta searched for a sculptural form that would express contemporary ideas while preserving prana—the inherent life-force of traditional Indian sculpture.
Born in Dacca (now Dhaka) in present-day Bangladesh, he studied sculpture under Hiranmoy Roy Chowdhary at the Lucknow School of Arts and Crafts (1932-33), and under D. P. Roy Chowdhury at Government School of Art and Craft, Madras (1933-37). Over the next two years, he studied bronze casting at LCC Central School, London, and sculpture at Royal Academy of Arts, London, and Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris. He returned to India in 1940 and set up his studio in Calcutta. He subsequently taught at M. S. University, Baroda, and at Calcutta’s Government College of Arts and Crafts.
For his realistic and abstract figures, he found inspiration in the fluid rhythm and gliding forms of masters such as Auguste Rodin, Constantin Brâncuși, Jean Arp, and Henry Moore. He famously experimented with instant
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Prodosh Dasgupta (1912-1991)
Prodosh Dasgupta was a crucial figure of that mid-20th generation of artists in Bengal who giving shape to vocabulary of modernism in Indian art. His role was particularly important in defining a distinct place for modernism in Indian sculpture, in advocating the concept of form as an independent identity in sculpture, and in pioneering a style of semi-abstract three-dimensional figuration.
His legacy has influenced generations of sculptors and his trademark style continues to hold high significance for art historians, connoisseurs, collectors.
Prodosh Dasgupta was born at Barakar in Dhaka. He graduated from Calcutta University in 1932 and then studied sculpture at Lucknow School of Art and Crafts the same year. Then, from 1933 to 1937, he trained under Devi Prasad Roy Chowdhury at the Government School of Art and Craft, Chennai, and earned his diploma in sculpture from that institution. He was awarded a fellowship from Cal