Sudip’s abstract expressionism

After years and years excelled in realistic work when did artist Sudip Roy enter a realm in which unbounded imagination was not only possible but desirable not known before. Sudip’s abstract expressionism or illusionism is not completely a school of painting as a way of approaching and experiencing the act of creation rather a way to get in touch with the unconscious part of our existence. In the coming exhibition the artist unveils a new chapter of his journey into the informal of art. Working strenuously for years in realistic medium, he established his name and achieves a deserving fame too. Though his new talent has come into eyes as his surprise indulgence but it was growing in him partially in an eclipsed manner during his struggling period. His recent work is the outcome of his years spent in realism. The mature understanding of colour composition and the new array of vivid hues consciously handled in abstract form is not effortless.He reintroduced ‘feeling’ in art by freely applying the paint, dripping and spreading. Breaking the limitation of abstract-geometric and cubistic bounds his work gain an expression of ‘lose shape’ with a kind of volume. This informal art by sudip demonstrate how abstract expressionism moved towards the creation of paintings without conscious control. One of the purposes of his work is to allow indirect access to his inner psyche. It is the way to get in touch with the unconscious part of human existence, without knowing what one is doing.Sudip has broken the restraints of early 20th century notion that a painting has to be representing something. Though the rule since renaissance was broken by impressionism, fauvism cubism and other art movements of all the time but sudip has developed his ‘fluid’ concept in his recent work. His use of colours in non realistic way gives a little approach to fauvism. We can witness from the colour, line, form, volume and texture of his work that he has emerged out of all genius of the ancient art. His work could be categorised by figurative abstractions where things are not visual such as emotion, sound or spiritual experience. Though we can’t depict any particular subject or object in it as detail is eliminated from recognisable objects leaving only the essence or some degree of familiar form. A fine example of abstract expressionism which emerged during 1940 has applied the principles of expressionism in abstract paintings is of Jackson Pollock. He is widely known for his action painting where paint was dripped, dropped, smeared, spattered or thrown on the canvas. But in Sudip’s work the paint has been dropped intentionally, smeared on canvas in diluted form with conscious control. What single out in his work is the back ground space left unused with base colours. He has composed both the work space and leisure space in such a manner that the observer will take it as an entire work with perfect compositions, the colours used give nerves a soothing effect. He has handled the canvas tactfully thus giving it a universal appeal. Following the way, Sudip has created something that, when viewed by an observer, evokes unconscious, unseen feelings and emotions.

P shivani bharadwaj