Shiva and Parvati

ca. 1950 · Painting

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The watercolour depicts the Hindu god Siva embracing his spouse, the goddess Parvati, who holds out an offering bowl to him; the scene is typically known as 'Gajan Dance'. The work is reminiscent of Kalighat painting from the 19th century, with the use of bold lines of colour and black and white outlines to emphasise the two figures. Brahma has used the miniature tradition coupled with Bengali folk art, much in line with his belief in the Neo-Bengal art tradition from Calcutta.

Dhirendranath Brahma was born in 1924 in Barisal, (Bangladesh.) Brahma studied at the Government School of Art, Calcutta from 1941-46. Between 1948-1949 he worked under Nandalal Bose and Lakshmeshwar Singha at Santiniketan. In 1951 he began teaching at the Government School of Art in Calcutta and started collaborating with artist B.B. Mukherjee. From the late 1980s he accepted a major national mural commissions, regarding painting as a 'private process of meditative contemplation.'

At the time of purchase the artist was the Head of the Department of Painting at the Government College of Art in Calcutta, where he taught in the Neo-Bengal tradition of painting to his students, among them the painter Amal Ghosh.

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