Poetry, Art, Aesthetics  and  Culture
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The vhicles , what ever they be ( words ,lines or picture , pigments(visual), manner or thoughts and mode of response must out-flow the 'frame of reference' to express our  inner Soul beyond the limits of our Audio-Visual field and perceptual existence, like the  fragrance of a flower expanding beyond its physical existence.
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"20 Tagore paintings at  art college fake : ASI " - The Times of  India, kolkata, Saturday , November 26,2011,(Front page, also P -4).
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"Elementary Watson, elementary"  --said Sherlock Holmes.


And my opinion : Just look at the eyes of the two feminine figures,
put up on the front page of the News paper (T.O.I).
 They have the 'eyes' of two villains  from  some of Hitch- cock 's  Pictures  and you need no further  scanning to tell that they are fake. 
That also, tell about the character of the artist involved  in  this  'fake-painting'  profession.
 Ganesh haloi  is  right and genuine in his comment . .
Other Non-artist- stalwarts, who commented,  were not expected  to know   much or find it on the spot.
Jogen Chaudhury  should have made public, about his own opinion as he is a tall figure in this field. He was the Curator in Jaipur House Art gallery(1970-80s) and he should know more  about the genuineness of those paintings. Did he not see the exhibition ?
Shuvaprasanna is now also another stalwart and has raised  right points & apt questions. 
We , together , held Exhibitions of Visual Art in AKADEMY OF  FINE  ARTS, in 1981. Mine  was:

"Symphony of  Wood "[ Waste  wood]  -by Phani Basu.
It is natural that he won't remember me , for, I was  an 'outsider' and I have no training in Art of any sort (neither in school  nor Art College).But  he ,surely, remembers ; Arany Banerjee, Ahi Bhusan malik,Mrinal Sen, Krishna Chaitanya (Delhi),S.H Vatsayan, Delhi(Jnyanpith award winner),Mrinal  Sen, Cacutta),Ayanna Deva Angadi(Asian Music Circle(international)London, A.S Panwar, head of Department of  Sculpture, Lucknow: All of them showered on me the highest grade of praise for revealing  my capacity in the field of Art.
Ananda Bazar  Patrica & DESH ,weekly (Sandeep sarkar)  declared, even ,that  I have God-gifted Vision!
Finally I  was  a Cardiologist -(now retired) ) with M.D degree, a poet by natural gift , a play-wright with 20 plays(19 manuscripts + one pubished),an essayist, a free lance Journalist and finally writing daily in 24 BLOGS on every subjects, conceivable.
And  I do not visit Art Exhibitions  any more for many years(spent 16 years in U.S,,A), nor, even, BOOK-Fairs  and have not  seen that ART EXHIBITION but dare to make a 'Spot-Diagnosis', -[with my nedical capacity]' that  the originator of those fake- pictures ( on the News Paper)  as mentioned above, is or are  "Crooked  -Hearts",as  I think !
Please, find out  further, explore and pubish in full . Need detective talent of another Sherlock Holmes ! He or they should be in jail for safety of others .
***[This is psychic impresion from within : can't prove it ]
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PS :" "Aim was to get fakes legitimised: PIL " The T.O.I, Kolkata, Saturday Nov. , 26,2011. P 4.
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Feel so happy to see the name  of Sculptor  -Tapas Sarkar who filed the PIL !
He knows me very well and it was he  , who helped an amateur like me, in the exhibition of  'Symphony of Wood'  in ' Akademy of Fine Arts' in 1981 & 1985.
I  lost his track and address since 1993  when I went to U.S.A and have been trying to know his address & Phone no- since I came back from U.S.A in 2008.
Hope Tapas would see this note and contact me through my E-Mail. This is a personal request !
  

ABOUT ART , POETRY & AESTHETICS

ART : Art is the way of expression in compression and harmony shaping the product , lightt like a feather and beautifu like flower and perceptual like floral fragrance.

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POETRY is neither rhyming nor advising on moral issues

Poetry is like a flower without root or stalk and, only petals and its Soul is only fragrance witout botany or chemistry

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Aesthetics i s a sort of balancing , in receiving and giving out in real iiving , i.e balancing y all actions in subtle harmony and Unity of living making it all inclusive , matter , non-matter & biologic.

From an Anonynous poet'

Only once this body/ only once my mind /this sense of I-ness too only once/ and so much fuss and fan-fare , only for that/even for that ,--so much romantic joy on the face of my Creator/ So much vivrating warmth within self/for that alone the urge of creative miryh in the straming blood/the un-announced desire for inviting life/ for that alone the bossoming spring -dance of joyous Nature / And razor-sharp sword of night.---------------------------/The inviting mirth of ever-burning desire in body and life/ and the waiting life for fulfiment/ ----and so muh desiring hope ---for what/ The efacing map-lines on the entropic physical existence/for a final desolution leading to ---/where /

( translated from Bengali by phani basu, 2003 )

My poetic feeling now recognised :

I wrote a poem on 02/09/ 1990 ,( Maha Kavya or Epic Poem ) that was published in Book named 'Abaar Phirey Elaam'(2008) where I wanted to depict my feeling that plants and flowers have perceptions and feelings like humans.
Now after 20 years , Australian Scientist claim :'Plants 'remember' and 'react' to info encrypted in light as well as transmit info about light intensity from leaf to leaf, a process similar to human nervous system.[T.O.I, Kolkata ; july 16, 2010]

I feel so happy now that my poetic feeling has now a recognition in Scientific world !

POETRY:

PARADOX :

'If there is 'Heaven' any where on Earth
it is here ,its here, its here only' -
Uttering these golden words , the beggar
in front of the Capital's crowd
stretched out his starving , bony hand.
( translated poem [Bengali]from 'CACTUS' 1968 )

AUTUMN LEAVES (10/24/01), U.S.A

Crimson ,yellow or fiery pink
the Autumn leaves, - large and small
shrubs or trees - bulky , slender , -tall
and all awaiting the ushering 'Fall'.

I, too, with my aging gait
with bi-focal lense and fragile stoop
walking back , , to my lonely shade
guided by mystic fading Sun-set !

The crispy sigh of falling leaves
floating or dropping on my retracing path
trampel some, as I step on them
in helpless sigh , - yet looking on.

The spreading Autumn or spctrum fall
with my retracing steps and awaiting too
the Season or Nature or whatever you name
shall repeat its way while living through.