Despite being something of an individual concept and expression, even in today's changed context, art often carries a collective connotation. With a sort of togetherness for some quest and search at the back of it, the group activity in the realm of art, hence still flourishes. That way, Delhi, a hub of activity, is witnessing more young artists clustering together.Busy otherwise with respective preoccupations, one a staff artist with a newspaper group, other illustrating books, another occupied with animated cartoons, yet another a modeler-sculptor and so on, these alert buddies are quite determined to give vent to their creative urges in brush and colour, as is evident in their works, currently on view at Bajaj Capital Art Gallery.With such a motely gathering, the end products are bound to be different. The exhibition bears this out. Kashinath Bose proves himself a competent draughts man in his pencil sketch of a cowshed as also in a water colour item showing an open yard of an old house while Chunilal Sen shows an inclination towards nature relying much on colour aspect. Manoj Pathak presents a set of figurative renderings. Dipak Haldar impresses with his colourful compositions carrying touches of fantasy. Be it a mythical character or an armoured warrior, there is to them a robust quality. This may be due to the artist's training as a sculptor searching for a third dimension in objects.Two of the participants stand out. While Subhas Roy turns to characters around, even in head studies he proves himself a colourist, going for pastels. His dexterity comes out in expressing movement and speed. On the other hand, Shyamal Banerjee seemingly prefers to work with a limited kind of palette as well as keen on breaking plains or playing with space. His rendering of Baneras Ghat restricting the use of colours to blue and grey, was good. The fairly large paintings by Ranjeet Saha stood out for his fancy for delineation of tribal dance.
