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Art Camp
at Burma
Travels
make a good writer. Somerset Maugham, the famed
British author, had no doubt about that. He left in
his will a handsome sum of money for the benefit of
struggling young writers who couldn’t afford to
travel. That travel is a must for a painter, too, has
been very recently evident as many artists are
enthusiastically joining art camps held in places as
far apart as
Istanbul
and Yongyong. No doubt a unique site, selected by
Golden Brush, Yongyong (formerly
Rangoon
) proved ideal for Indian artists— coming from
different parts of the country—to visit and stay
together for a week from November 13 to 21. The week
was mostly taken up by well-organised
programmes
of sight seeing, cultural evenings, interactions among
the visiting artists and with those from
Myanmar
. In between the visitors did drawings and sketches
and gathered impressions and ideas to recharge
themselves for a fresh spurt of creativity once they
would return home. But this is not what made the visit
to
Myanmar
unique.
Myanmar
is probably the place, which few Indians, not to speak
of Indian artists, have ever visited before in the
recent past. One of our closest neighbours,
Myanmar
has visible evidence, in many instances, of her strong
historical ties with
India
especially of culture and religion. So the artists had
a unique experience of visiting a foreign country
fascinatingly exotic in many details of her
traditional and contemporary culture and lifestyle. At
the same time they
enjoyed a reassuring feeling of being at home there,
sharing a spiritual affinity with its people.
The
artists who joined the camp included Bijan Chowdhury,
Suhas Roy, Sunil Das, Prakash Karmakar, Shuvaprasanna,
Aditya Basak, Ilina Banik from Calcutta,Rini
Dhumal,Brinda Mille,Kahini Merchant from Mumbai and
Jatin Das, Samsad Husain ,Anwar Khan,Amtabha Das…and
Mona Raifrom Delhi.
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| Dubananda
Jana and prokash Karmakar at Yangon Airport |
Subhas
Roy and Arijit Das at Yangon Airport |
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| Art
work at the tample of Bagan |
Rini
Dhumal making sketch at one of the pagoda of
Bagan |
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| Subhas
Roy & Arijit Das at the Mount Popa |
Lunch
time at Mount Popa |
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| Over
the Mount Popa |
A road in Mount Popa
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| A
natural scene at Mount Popa |
Putul Nach at Mount Popa
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| Dinner
time at Mount Popa |
Waiting for flight at
International Airport Yangoon
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