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Anukul's dream world of nebulous figures

Fayza Haq
ANUKUL Mojumder's ongoing exhibition at Shilpangan brings in his favourite theme of mother and child with the harmonious elements of nature in the backdrop. His lines and curves follow those of Ajanta and Elora cave drawings, which he merges with his own style to give his paintings and drawings a modern edge. "Of all the creations on earth, I consider human beings to be the most beautiful," says AnukuT
Master painters from the past like Picasso, Moore and Rodin have been preoccupied with the human form and this artist too plays with limbs, torso, hips and faces as if they were into gral parts of some romantic dream, where the human anatomy floats though space and time Anukul has the joint family in mind, and one sees numerous figures in many of his paintings and sketches.
The artist invokes his childhood days in Barisal. The swimming boats, flowing rivers and rain are included in Anukul's study of man and nature. He longs for the wet grass and die chirping of the tiny birds, bringing in waves of lyricism in his drama of dancing human images. His figures face upwards, as if longing to flee from the urban bindings to a tranquil haven of the far off countryside with its fields, pastures and conglomeration of trees and their adjacent bushes and entwining creepers.
At rimes he smudges the paints and the charcoal lines with his fingers so that the effect is more lyrical. At times he drapes his images in clouds of cobalt blue and vermilion, explaining that these are the colours of drcam sequences. Anukul paints in his small studio near Mohammadpur, pouring over his work by day and night, whenever he gets time off from his routine task of looking after the Shilpangan gallery.
Anukul does not use models but introduces lines and sweeps from his memories of ancient sculptures seen in actuality, paintings and photographs. The voluptuous thighs, breasts,
An artwork by Anukul Mojumder
hips, sweeps of floating hair, and fingers like curling petals are stylised shapes of his memories of gods and goddesses, reaching back to his academic days.
"The figure drawings of SM Sultan and Zainul Abedin have influenced me greatly. So have the works of Rafiqunnabi and Quayyum Chowdhury, who were my teachers. Matisse and Gauguin's exotic paintings and their raw, vibrant colours are also invoked in my paintings. The impact of pata chitra and lakkhishara along with the stylisation of Bengal School of An again affect my line work of
bringing in nebulous female forms on my paper. Festive colours seen in jatra and Boishakhi melas in the ochre and reds are similarly a part of my paintings," says Anukul. Surrounded by floods, famines, and cyclones, the artist's paintings are an escape into a world of gaiety and contentment.
Embracing human figures -- running, resting, dancing, skipping and being entwined with nature, skies and foliage - - are themes that Anukul tirelessly repeats in his paintings and sketches.
The exhibition ends on February 18.