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Jogen Chowdhury was born on 19 February, 1939 in Daharpara, Faridpur, Bengal Presidency, British India, is an Indian artist (born 1939). Discover Jogen Chowdhury's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Occupation Painter
Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 19 February, 1939
Birthday 19 February
Birthplace Daharpara, Faridpur, Bengal Presidency, British India
Nationality India

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1939

Jogen Chowdhury (born 19 February 1939) is an eminent Indian painter and considered an important painter of 21st century India.

He lives and works in Santiniketan.

Jogen was born in Daharpara Village, a village in the Faridpur district of Bangladesh in 1939.

His father Pramatha Nath Chowdhury was a Brahmin zamindar.

Jogen received the interest on art from his parents as both his parents were artists.

Pramatha Nath was interested in Hindu mythological incidents and characters.

He had painted several mythological scenes from the village theatres.

He had also sculpted various Hindu deities.

Jogen's mother was an expert in Alpana drawings.

Jogen Chowdhury was born and brought-up in a village culture and atmosphere.

1948

Just before partition Jogen along with his father came to Calcutta; the rest of the family moved to Calcutta in 1948, after the partition.

The family stayed at his uncle's quarter.

Here Jogen painted his first painting, on the wall.

1951

In 1951, Jogen's family moved to Saheednagar Colony, Dhakuria.

1955

Jogen was admitted to the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata in 1955 wherefrom he graduated by 1960.

His first job was as an art teacher in Howrah Zilla School.

1962

After two years in 1962, he was employed as Designer in the Handloom Board, Calcutta.

1965

In 1965, he went to Paris to study in Ecole des Beaux Arts, in William Hayter's Atelier 17.

Afterwards he spent five months in London.

1967

He graduated from the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata and subsequently at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 1967.

He has immense contribution in inspiring young artists of India.

Jogen Chowdhury had developed his individual style after his return from Paris.

His most famous paintings are in ink, water colour and pastel.

He has painted in oil medium as well.

Lines and its tactile characteristic to enhance colours is an important material in Indian Art for ages.

Jogen Chowdhury himself is a master of lines and he has mastered to make the curves depict the character of his figures.

By careful distortion of the form he imparts the air of caricature in his figures, figures of men and women.

The figure is always the most important and conveys all the artist has to express.

Colour, he uses though, is to provide matter into the form.

R. Siva Kumar has lucidly described Jogen's works in the following excerpt:"The pulse and rhythm of Jogen Chowdhury’s art comes from a filial affinity to nature and milieu. In Chowdhury’s more recent works the sensory experiences of cloth, bolsters, sofas and the human body are cross-projected to produce an uncanny world of tran-substantiated tumescence and flaccidness. Mnemic displacements and personal associations add to the symbolic ambivalence of his motifs, making his images come closer to inexplicable experiences than to explicit signs. In the postures of some figures we feel an animal sentience, in the ripe anatomy of others we savour a fruity succulence. The figures are wrought by a combination of decorative wilfulness and expressive distortion and are imbued with an effusive sensuality. Chowdhury’s art is rich in suggestions; it is to be apprehended without bracketing our fund of knowledge, experience or memories, but also cannot be narrativised without trivialising it, without depleting its sensory particularities."

1968

He returned to India in early 1968.

He was appointed as a textile designer in the Handloom Board in Chennai.

1970

In 1970, he joined the Calcutta Painters Group.

His first collection of poems Hridoy Train Beje Othey was also published in the same year.

1972

He quit his job at the Madras Handloom Board in 1972 to join the Art Gallery of Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi as a Curator.

Due to this new job, he moved to New Delhi.

1975

He founded the Gallery 26 and Artists' Forum in New Delhi in 1975 along with some leading painters of New Delhi.

1986

In 1986, Jogen represented India in the 'Festival of Art' in Baghdadwi.

1987

In 1987, Jogen Chowdhury joined Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan as professor of painting.

Beside his numerous paintings, exhibitions, he has written extensively on contemporary art.