KOLKATA: Artist Indrajit Nattoji introduced a unique choice of paintings at the ICCR on Saturday. It used to be called, “Tagore in Shorthand” that delves into Kobi Guru’s literary works via handwriting his poems and songs in his symbol, using ink and paint on paper.
Each art-work showcases one among Tagore’s literary works written in his symbol. Portraits vary from Tagore as a tender man to his later years - an artist’s tribute to Rabindranath Tagore in hand written drawing taste. Director and actor Parambrata Chattopadhyay used to be present at the match with Bickram Ghosh, Wassim Kapoor, Baishali Dalmiya amongst others on day one.
Talking about his inspiration, Nattoji said, “I've been drawing and portray from the time I recall my earliest childhood reminiscences. It used to be a herbal intuition, as elementary as consuming and breathing. I always wanted to be an artist because the time I used to commute with my folks right through my summer time vacations. When I used to be studying at the National Institute of Design, lengthy earlier than the digital renaissance, we used to take notes, write scripts, tales and with pen, pencil and paper. Computers had been a far off thought at that time and nor had been we allowed near one.
Recently, I began using handwritten words and sentences to create forms whilst drawing over words when I made errors. As I used to be drawing whilst writing, the lines took on a life of their own. I began writing whilst growing an image and I created photographs whilst writing. I then added some paint and colour. Shorthand artwork any person?”
A pupil of NID, Ahmedabad, Nattoji has wonthe Singapore Promax BDA Asia Awards, Razorfish Rocket Award for Rising Talent and Best Station ID. He has labored in Channel [v] Mumbai as Senior Producer, later becoming an ad-filmmaker kick-starting his personal company called Blink Pictures. Currently, he's writing his subsequent function movie, whilst conceptualizing, directing and generating three movie installations for India’s first Museum on Indian Music in Bangalore and proceeding to make Ad-Films. He loves travelling the world together with his circle of relatives.
When requested why he selected Tagore, the artist said, “The Bengali ‘power’ in me has always been sturdy. I've been brought up with the necessary staple of Tagore songs, poems and tales. Recently I used to be in the middle of an animation venture where I had taken on a part of the animation where one needed to do hands-on drawings digitally. My mom had arranged a small serve as and get in combination for Robindro Jayanti and had requested me to attract a portrait of Tagore and add a quote from his works. I used to be already drawing frames for my animation with my newly bought Ipad and Apple pencil. I quickly mixed the words ‘Pochishe Boishak’ into an image of Tagore. It used to be spontaneous and intuitive. It turned out somewhat attention-grabbing and used to be a lot preferred by means of everybody. That’s how this venture took start.”
What are the plans with this journey of portray? “I hope to take this further with interpretations of extra of his works in handwritten drawing taste with greater formats of drawing, portray, screen prints, woodcuts, digital artwork and large-scale animation and film installations,” Nattoji signed off.
Each art-work showcases one among Tagore’s literary works written in his symbol. Portraits vary from Tagore as a tender man to his later years - an artist’s tribute to Rabindranath Tagore in hand written drawing taste. Director and actor Parambrata Chattopadhyay used to be present at the match with Bickram Ghosh, Wassim Kapoor, Baishali Dalmiya amongst others on day one.
Talking about his inspiration, Nattoji said, “I've been drawing and portray from the time I recall my earliest childhood reminiscences. It used to be a herbal intuition, as elementary as consuming and breathing. I always wanted to be an artist because the time I used to commute with my folks right through my summer time vacations. When I used to be studying at the National Institute of Design, lengthy earlier than the digital renaissance, we used to take notes, write scripts, tales and with pen, pencil and paper. Computers had been a far off thought at that time and nor had been we allowed near one.
Recently, I began using handwritten words and sentences to create forms whilst drawing over words when I made errors. As I used to be drawing whilst writing, the lines took on a life of their own. I began writing whilst growing an image and I created photographs whilst writing. I then added some paint and colour. Shorthand artwork any person?”
A pupil of NID, Ahmedabad, Nattoji has wonthe Singapore Promax BDA Asia Awards, Razorfish Rocket Award for Rising Talent and Best Station ID. He has labored in Channel [v] Mumbai as Senior Producer, later becoming an ad-filmmaker kick-starting his personal company called Blink Pictures. Currently, he's writing his subsequent function movie, whilst conceptualizing, directing and generating three movie installations for India’s first Museum on Indian Music in Bangalore and proceeding to make Ad-Films. He loves travelling the world together with his circle of relatives.
When requested why he selected Tagore, the artist said, “The Bengali ‘power’ in me has always been sturdy. I've been brought up with the necessary staple of Tagore songs, poems and tales. Recently I used to be in the middle of an animation venture where I had taken on a part of the animation where one needed to do hands-on drawings digitally. My mom had arranged a small serve as and get in combination for Robindro Jayanti and had requested me to attract a portrait of Tagore and add a quote from his works. I used to be already drawing frames for my animation with my newly bought Ipad and Apple pencil. I quickly mixed the words ‘Pochishe Boishak’ into an image of Tagore. It used to be spontaneous and intuitive. It turned out somewhat attention-grabbing and used to be a lot preferred by means of everybody. That’s how this venture took start.”
What are the plans with this journey of portray? “I hope to take this further with interpretations of extra of his works in handwritten drawing taste with greater formats of drawing, portray, screen prints, woodcuts, digital artwork and large-scale animation and film installations,” Nattoji signed off.
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