Jamini Roy... An Idol...

Jamini Roy was one of the greatest painters of the 20th century. He was born in the year 1887, at Beliator village in Bankura district of Bengal. His father, Ramataran Roy, was a middle class man who resigned from government service to pursue his interest in art. In 1903, when he was only 16 years old, Jamini Roy came to Calcutta (now Kolkata) to enroll himself in the Government School of Art.

As the biography and life history of Jamini Roy unfurls, we get to know that in the early days of his career as an artist, his paintings came across as bland and dull. In the mean time, he started doing odd jobs in order to survive. It was in 1925 that he discovered his true calling outside the Kalighat temple in Calcutta. Jamini recognized his preference as well as interest in the field of Kalighat paintings. From that time onwards, his paintings started reflecting the Kalighat style. By the early 1930s, Jamini Roy became fully conversant with the lines of the Kalighat idiom and switched over to the native materials.

With the passage of time, his paintings started reflecting more and more influence of the indigenous art of Kalighat painting, along with the terracotta's of the Vishnupur temple. However, around mid-1930s, Jamini Roy left the conventional practice of the canvas and started making painting surfaces out of cloth, wood or even mats coated with lime. He even started experimenting with natural colors, using earth, chalk powder and vegetable colors instead of dyes. From 1930 onwards, the career of Jamini Roy took an upward turn and the trend continued till he left for the holy abode, in the year 1972.

His Style
The paintings of Jamini Roy, which belong to the early 1920s, reflect the influence of Bengal School mannerisms. He also made some excellent paintings that marked his entry into the Post-Impressionist genre of landscapes and portraits. Many paintings of Jamini Roy have been based on the everyday life of the rural Bengal. Then, there are numerous ones revolving around religious themes like Ramayana, Radha-Krishna, Jesus Christ, etc. Jamini Roy also painted scenes form the lives of the aboriginal Santhals.

Recognition
Jamini Roy's paintings were put on exhibition for the first time in the British India Street of Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1938. During the 1940s, his popularity touched new highs, with the Bengali middle class and the European community becoming his main clientele. In 1946, his work was exhibited in London and in 1953, in the New York City. Jamini Roy was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 1955.

Famous Works

• Cats Plus
• Cats Sharing a Prawn
• Crucifixion with Attendant Angels
• Kitten
• Krishna and Balarama
• Krishna and Radha Dancing
• Krishna with Gopis in Boat
• Makara
• Queen on Tiger
• Ravana, Sita and Jatayu
• Santal Boy with Drum
• Seated Woman in Sari
• St. Ann and the Blessed Virgin
• Vaishnavas
• Virgin And Child
• Warrior King

 Here some of the famous paintings with different style-

Cats sharing a prawn- water colour

St. Ann and the Blessed Virgin

Ram, Sita and Laxmana

The last supper- Oil Painting

Mother and Child

Blue Valentine

Movie Review:

   BLUE  VALENTINE
           Film by Derek Cianfrance. Genre- Romance/Drama (2010)

Red is common, 'blue' makes this 'Valentine' unique:-

It's a film directed by Derek Cianfrance, centers on a contemporary married couple- their relationship and it's up and down. Both Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams did their job in this particular film being a perfectionist. Over all it's a romantic story with all it's sweetness, dedication, dependency, frustration and dying love.
                           In this film, Dean Pereira and Cindy Heller Pereira are a young, working class married couple, where Dean working as a painter and Cindy working as a nurse in a medical clinic and also staying together with their daughter Frankie. Dean's love for Cindy was kind of 'Love at first sight' type but it was so pure than anything. Where as Cindy's love for Dean came from her dependency mostly. She understood this fact that there is only Dean who can give her full of support and love during the time of her sudden pregnancy. So, without considering this fact that Dean is a high school drop out and came from a broken family without any ideal mother figure,Cindy married to him and gave him all her basic responsibilities. But things are changed when life's movement of this couple are going to be normal. That moment Cindy starts to find this fact that Dean should be more ambitious in his professional life. Dean took this in a wrong way accepting the fact that Cindy's love for him is changed now a days,it was not like the starting love life between them.Because that time she accepted Dean with all his strength and weaknesses. This particular thinking affects on their personal life,and he became a frustrated husband behaving with his wife rudely even in her working area. These matters Cindy can't tolerate finally and their journey of love finds it's deadline at last.
                         Two phases are there in this whole story. First of all we can see their first dating which carries all it's sweetness,passion,arrogance,sexual intimacy with full of energy, and secondly we can see the dead love between them which destroyed due to the materialistic effect of reality. Dean's simple joke that, ''we're inside a robot's vagina'', ''babe,that's how they laugh in the future'', make this fact clear that what will be the ultimate result of their relationship.
                         Over all,this is a wonderful movie with great acting skill of Gosling and Michelle include it's small and broad images and melodious music altogether. Undoubtedly at the end of all the things,this film creates a well image which can be cause watching this movie more than one time.