It is often said that God is in the details, so what happens when details get amplified to godly proportions?Artists have used ink, as one of the world’s oldest drawing mediums, to produce some of the world’s most memorable images. Drawing with pen and ink (or brush and ink) is as challenging as it is inspiring — it heightens an artist’s accurate use of line, value, and composition, develops confidence, and opens new pathways to creative possibilities. Beautiful blacks and crystal-clear colors make drawing with ink irresistible.
Given the fact that Modern technology has streamed its way to digitalization, the thrill of pen and ink medium the power of a pen, and finding the freedom of no do-overs still holds a prominent position in artists’ sketchbooks and as mainstream artwork. Here, we present an artist who still practices this medium.
Artist, Pratap Chandra Chakraborty is known for his larger-than-life depictions of everyday objects. Drawing inspiration from surrealistic iconography, Pratap transfigures the mundane banalities of day-to-day objects into monuments of monstrous proportions. In a dreamlike atmosphere Pratap’s telephone, air horn, and wooden pale with a pomegranate thrown in as a fetishistic afterthought, make for a fascinating imagery, somewhat like a fascinating relic of the past. Pratap’s compositions reflect his familiarity with and synthesis of psychoanalytical theories. The colour tone, intricate drawing, graphic imagery, and tactile quality of the artwork add to its mysteriously riveting aura.
In a deeply personal visual language, Pratap Chandra Chakraborty brings alive the life of everyday objects in a remarkably unique manner. Pratap’s organic morphology rendered through large-scale distortions is akin to our dreams and delusions taking shape in paint.