As part of a once-a-month art and experience series, Taj City Centre New Town kicks off Paints & Strokes, an immersive painting experience where artists like Dhiren Sasmal, Sambhu Saha and Gautam Sarkar express and shape their palettes of thoughts with vivid strokes and colourful hues at Shamiana, the all-day dining at the property.
In an interactive format, spread over two days — February 18 and 19 — these artists will have their work on display and paint live with hotel guests. Watch them in their elements as they interact, paint and create magic, and add their art to your collection, the first of many such events hosted by Taj City Centre New Town.
“When marketing luxury, the best way to set yourself apart is to offer emblematic and totemic contemporary art experiences. This remarkable event opens door to a new range of creative engagement in the city, as guests are invited to watch live painting, paint under the artist’s guidance, and also add stunning works of art to their own collection. Paints & Strokes is the first of many extraordinary art experiential hosted by Taj City Centre New Town,” said Sourav Ghosal, general manager, Taj City Centre New Town. The Telegraph gets you the details on the work of each artist.
Dhiren Sasmal applies his decades of experience in visual art and diverse mediums to reinvent old beloved themes such as children absorbed in a world of simple pleasures, mermaids and fairies, owls with attitude, horses and fish. The genius of this artist lies not only in his skill in linear execution and mastery over his media but also in his transforming of a complex formal structure into a jubilant world of fantasy-oriented beauty. The viewer too frees his imagination unrestricted by the mores of reality.
In Sambhu Saha’s work, one sees that freely brushed colours are given primacy over line. He uses short thick strokes of colour to quickly recreate the sensation in the eye that views the subject, rather than recreating the subject and its details. Paint is often applied impasto, unmixed. His more contemplative work has darker tones, while his village and ghat scenes are done with small strokes of colour, placed side by side to produce the effect of light. Sambhu often paints in the outdoors to capture the transient effects of sunlight or the shadowy effects of twilight. Like photographers, he is inspired to capture the moment.