Life and works of paresh maity

Description :-This extensively documented volume captures the life of the artist Paresh Maity in his various moods and moorings. Hailed as one of the important watercolourists in Indian contemporary art scene Paresh Maity belongs to a generation that went through a lot of ideological crisis. His artistic training at the Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata and College of Art, New Delhi, Paresh Maity has immensely contributed his stylistic development. The authors Uma Nair and Sushma Behl look at the life and works of the artist from two different angles. Uma Nair moves from Paresh Maity’s biographical sketching to the finer nuances of his art that encompasses watercolours, oil paintings, assemblages and installations. Sushma Behl looks at one peculiar strain of his works; the predominant presence of Eros. In Paresh Maity’s works eroticism comes as a recurrent theme, transcending the carnal into the realm of aesthetics without losing the stylistic traits of his oeuvre. Uma Nair captures the intricacies of the artist’s life in a simple but engaged conversation at the outset and then set the tone of his life into haiku poems. She develops her haiku observations into full fledged aesthetic analysis of his works. Her attempt is to combine the aesthetic preoccupations of the artist with the thematic semblances of his life. Born in Tamluk, a suburban town near the Bay of Bengal, Paresh has always been a lover of nature. His love for nature found benign expressions in watercolours, a technique that he had excelled as a student in the Government College of Art and Craft. His found his masters in the British watercolourists like William Turner and John Constable. He followed the works of the Impressionists and those of Cezanne very closely and this affection for the Impressionists helped him to perfect his visual language in different mediums.