Bireswar Sen’s post card sized landscapes featuring Himalayas, has earned him a special identity in the Indian art milieu. He was born in 1897 at Calcutta and took up painting and drawing since younger days, but didn't pursue art
Bireswar Sen’s post card sized landscapes featuring Himalayas, has earned him a special identity in the Indian art milieu. He was born in 1897 at Calcutta and took up painting and drawing since younger days, but didn't pursue art formally. Sen completed MA in English from Presidency College, Calcutta, and became an English lecturer at Bihar National College in Patna, Bihar. But he continued painting and was in close contact with the Bengal school of artists including the Tagores and Nandalal Bose.
He was inspired by the Himalayas and visited the mountains many times throughout his life. It was on one of his trips in 1932 that he met the Russian artist Nicholas Roerich. Their meeting, and subsequent correspondence, left a lasting impact on Sen, both artistically and spiritually.
Bireswar Sen decided to paint on a scale very different from Roerich’s large and roaring canvases. On tiny sheets of paper, using the wash technique that he knew well from Bengal, he created miniature watercolours that feature mountains, valleys and forlorn landscapes. Landscapes within which intimate moments of life occur, are spread out in nuanced skies, light-filled clouds, shade-holding trees and high-breasted peaks. Moments of ordinary existence in time and place intersect with pathless dimensions disclosed by splendor, delicacy, luminescence, mystery and color moving through space. Tiny figures inhabit each composition and imbed human activity and its attendant sentiment in a panorama of the natural world.
Sen exhibited across India as well as London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, and New York during his career. The artist passed away in Kolkata in 1974.
Academics
M.A. in English Literature from the Presidency College Calcutta
Bireswar Sen’s post card sized landscapes featuring Himalayas, has earned him a special identity in the Indian art milieu. He was born in 1897 at Calcutta and took up painting and drawing since younger days, but didn't pursue art formally. Sen completed MA in English from Presidency
Bireswar Sen’s post card sized landscapes featuring Himalayas, has earned him a special identity in the Indian art milieu. He was born in 1897 at Calcutta and took up painting and drawing since younger days, but didn't pursue art formally. Sen completed MA in English from Presidency College, Calcutta, and became an English lecturer at Bihar National College in Patna, Bihar. But he continued painting and was in close contact with the Bengal school of artists including the Tagores and Nandalal Bose.
He was inspired by the Himalayas and visited the mountains many times throughout his life. It was on one of his trips in 1932 that he met the Russian artist Nicholas Roerich. Their meeting, and subsequent correspondence, left a lasting impact on Sen, both artistically and spiritually.
Bireswar Sen decided to paint on a scale very different from Roerich’s large and roaring canvases. On tiny sheets of paper, using the wash technique that he knew well from Bengal, he created miniature watercolours that feature mountains, valleys and forlorn landscapes. Landscapes within which intimate moments of life occur, are spread out in nuanced skies, light-filled clouds, shade-holding trees and high-breasted peaks. Moments of ordinary existence in time and place intersect with pathless dimensions disclosed by splendor, delicacy, luminescence, mystery and color moving through space. Tiny figures inhabit each composition and imbed human activity and its attendant sentiment in a panorama of the natural world.
Sen exhibited across India as well as London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, and New York during his career. The artist passed away in Kolkata in 1974.
Academics
M.A. in English Literature from the Presidency College Calcutta
