EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions 1963 Exhb. at Artistry House, Calcutta.
1984 Participated Kala Yatra, Madras. 1985 Exhb. at
Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi. 1985 Exhb. at the
Calcutta Art Gallery, Calcutta. 1988 Exhb. at Chitrakoot
Art Gallery, Calcutta. 1991 Exhb. at Dhoomimal Art Gallery,
New Delhi.Group Exhibition 1961-63 National Exhibition,
All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi;
Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta; Academy
of Fine Arts, Calcutta; West Bengal State Academy. 1964
Exhb. of Three Artists, All India Fine Arts & Crafts
Society, New Delhi. 1966 Six Painters, Artistry House,
Calcutta. 1967 Exhb. at Arts & Prints Gallery, Calcutta.
1971 Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta. 1979
Kala Yatra Exhibition, Madras; New Delhi; Kuala Lumpur;
Calcutta. 1980 Drawings `80, Chandigarh 1981 Kala Yatra
Exhibition, Ernakulam; Hyderabad; Indian Paintings Today,
Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay. 1982 Kala Yatra Exhibition,
Bombay; Bangalore; London; Paris; Manchester.
COLLECTION
Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Chitrakala Parishad
Museum, Bangalore. National Gallery of Modern Art, New
Delhi. Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. Birla Academy
of Art and Culture, Kolkata. Delhi Art Gallery, New
Delhi.
AWARDS
1981 Received award from Birla Academy of Art and Culture,
Calcutta. 1989 Received Shiromani Puraskar, Asian Paints.
STYLE
Dharmanarayan Dasgupta in his lifetime remained almost
entirely within the fold of the Calcutta art world,
where he found his foothold. By the late 70`s, he had
evoked a style by which he came to be known, where the
prime medium he worked with was a special genre of egg
tempera on canvas, using a mouth spray for finishing
effect. A recognizable repertoire of characters and
scenes animated his compositions with jocularity, mischief
and satire seen in corpulent babus, buxom ladies and
later on, an array of detached heads and tubular limbs
that disturbingly glow out of still life objects.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1966-79 Art Teacher, St. Thomas Church School, Howrah.
1979-85 Teacher, St. Thomas School, Dasnagar. 1985-97
Faculty of Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University,
Calcutta. Faculty Dean and Curator of the Rabindra Bharati
University Museum, Calcutta.
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