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This page shows images from an acclaimed book consisting of twenty-four paintings in monotype by Bengali artist Samij Datta. It helps us take a journey back to the tradition of a glorious past and to explore the kinship between literature, film, philosophy and art. The influence of poetry, film, music on a highly sensitive mind of the artist and its metaphorical display in art draws parallels between Baudelaire’s uses of symbolism in French poetry- both are held together by the aesthetics of correspondence. As to the stylistics of the works here, one finds close resemblance with some of Tagore’s art and the tradition of Bengal folk painting along with influences from Bauhaus, Zen, African and South American folk styles.
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