SANTOSH KUMAR SAHANI
SANTOSH KUMAR SAHANI
My paintings are not just brushed strokes or a blend of colors on canvas. But it is a convenient medium for me to establish, harmony, increase love, sacrifice, peace, beauty, spirituality, and creative development in all the strata of society.
The subject of my painting is based on the fisherman and their socio-economic,socio-cultural life. I find myself at ease with these subjects as being a fisherman family. I have had several experiences of fisherman's life which reflects in my painting. These experience enriched me and, therefore, the beauty of abstractness and maturity of subjects
teemed with my artwork.
I closely observed and encountered the various experience of life,truth, the ugliness of these fishermen's society. I felt the pangs of their hardships and Joy of their spirits, their struggle to make both ends meet. Despite life snatching struggle, they adapt themselves to every situation of life or season like sweltering and scorching heat, downpour, cold, etc. They survive with pride by defeating man-made or destiny-made hurdles.
They earn their bread & butter through various means like fisheries, Makhana (fox nuts) production, and many other works.
The mermaid, fisherman, and their lives which existed in my painting are my muse.
The mermaid is composed of woman and fish, which is very attractive, enjoyable, and fickle in nature. The beauty of the mermaid is incredible and looks like a nymph, on the other hand, the fisherman appears rigid and rough. This reflection indicates about the truth of life that tenderness and rigidness, beauty and roughness mermaid (woman) and fisherman (man); all these dualisms are essential for life,
One needs another to be accomplished. The boat and fishing net of a fisherman is just not means of earning but has importance beyond description.
My subjects also show the contradictions of this world and all the universal elements Whether the life of man, mermaid, or someone else. Somehow, every living being of the world is making strives to prove its existence. I have made efforts to reflect on rural life as well as to address the problem of urban life.
Keeping in mind the understanding of human sensibilities and complexities, I have portraited the inner feeling of society through color and brush. Impressed by the rural lifestyle I have enclosed the importance of the smartness and beauty of the village in the paintings.
In my journey of color and brush, my painting also includes the urban-public life issues with subtleness.
I feel immense joy in creating artworks on these subjects namely absolution, spiritual realization, and surreal fantasy. These are the three Major points of art. Due to this knowledge, I soul in art with my Faith which is capable of leading to mesmerizing illumination in creative development. But it certain that I put all these subjects in front of society through my painting which has been existing in society for centuries as subject like love, beauty, exploitation, struggle, feelings, real, abstract, ancient, modern and remain forever in some new forms.
It is my sole mission to make them come true through my muse.
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