-By Sourav Sengupta
The glamour of film-maker Satyajit Ray, the man who revolutionized Indian cinema often shrouds the character of artist Satyajit Ray. A creative genius, Ray had an exceptional hand in sketching and made priceless contributions to contemporary commercial art.
The glamour of film-maker Satyajit Ray, the man who revolutionized Indian cinema often shrouds the character of artist Satyajit Ray. A creative genius, Ray had an exceptional hand in sketching and made priceless contributions to contemporary commercial art.
Born in a house of talents, Ray was no exception himself and took interest in western music and cinema at a very early age. At the age of eighteen after graduation, he was lured by Rabindranath Tagore and persuaded by his mother to join art classes at Kala Bhavan, Shantiniketan. Here for the first time he came to study oriental art-form under the supervision of great masters like Nandalal Bose and Benod Behari Mukherjee whose profound influence would reflect in Ray’s works throughout his life. Ray would study Chinese murals, Japanese wood-carvings; he would make trips to parts of the country to learn the intricacies of Indian art. Ray would deploy various calligraphic elements later in his illustrations and designs. In 1943 he left his studies at Shantiniketan unfinished to join the British advertising agency D.J.Keymer. |