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National Gallery of Modern Art, BengaluruUp to 14th October 2022. Welcome to the world of Bireswar Sen's Art. He was a miniature artist par excellence and his landscapes are indeed poems in watercolour. In the limited space, he shows us infinite distances as well as lofty Himalayas.
Bireswar Sen (1897–1974) was an Indian painter, writer, and teacher, who was influenced by the Bengal School of Art and Western modernism, but then later developed a unique visual language of miniatures.
Welcome to the world of Bireswar Sen's Art. He was a miniature artist par excellence and his landscapes are indeed poems in watercolour. In the limited space, he shows us infinite distances as well as lofty Himalayas.
Bireswar Sen won renown as a painter of landscapes and exhibited at several art exhibitions in India and abroad. His paintings were acquired by, among others, the Central Museum at Lahore, the Travancore State Gallery, the State Gallery of Mysore, the Municipal Museum at Allahabad and the Provinical Museum at Lucknow.
Bireswar Sen was of the view that landscapes are not objective self-identifying entities, but rather projections, cultural and personal, framed by consciousness and perception. He did not aim to “imitate nature,” but “to add to nature what it does not possess: the mind and soul of man.”
Mar 14, 2023 · A watercolour artist, Bireswar Sen is remembered for his small-scale landscape paintings, particularly of the Himalayas. His work was shaped by a wide range of influences, most notably Pahari miniatures, Japanese ink wash painting and Romanticism.
Jan 23, 2016 · Born in Bengal in 1897, Bireswar Sen grew up in stirring times for the cultural field; something of a renaissance in the arts was in the air, led by the celebrated Tagore family.
