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An Evening Soiree with Johannes Möller, Biplaw Singh and AHIMSA at Live in Concert performance in Kolkata presented by the SIDDHA Group

2011-03-20T23:39:00.001-07:00

19th March, 2011, Kolkata: It was an evening soiree that music lovers in Kolkata will remember, not because it was on the eve of Holi, the festival of colours, but because it was a splendidly organized event, to recreate the culture following a great tradition of Indian classical music performances blended with the very best music from the West, a platter that’s hard to miss since colours express the zest for life and the beauty of the sound.

“She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire,
…………………………………….
She is the Force, the inevitable Word,
The magnet of our difficult ascent,
The Sun from which we kindle all our suns,
The Light that leans from unrealized vasts,…” (Book III: The Book of the Divine Mother, Canto II: The Adoration of the Divine Mother, Savitri- Sri Aurobindo)

One might wonder the relationship between the above lines from Sri Aurobindo’s epic poem Savitri, and between the opening musical performance by Johannes Möller but, this is not very hard or difficult to gaze since Johannes, currently one of the finest of young talents in classical guitar worldwide, and also the 1st prize award winner of the prestigious GFA Concert Artist Competition in 2010, chose the moment to open the evening’s performance by playing his self-composed musical reverie ‘Song to the Mother’. It came at a critical time when the world was shocked by the triple action forces of Earthquake, Tsunami and a major Nuclear Radiation threat that had rocked Japan a week before, Johannes explained that the music goes to the Mother at three levels: the motherly love one finds at home; the mother earth and thirdly the cosmic mother and the divine force that operates since the beginning of creation. A rounded applause by a full learned festive crowd, so symptomatic of Kolkata, was quickly followed by another of his own compositions, this time ‘Ananda’ to reiterate that the creation came out of the self-delight of the Lord/the Creator, from bliss it came and poured into a pitcher of bliss. To crown the day, his last composition was ‘Rasa-Lila’. Partnered with Biplaw Singh, one of the finest classical guitarists from Asia and the best in India, this was a confluence of the east-west musical genre, the two guitars creating the smooth elastic sound that not only touched the hearts and evoked the senses, at the same time, it was a reveling aesthetic disposition of the musical sublime that permeates the levels of experiential love.

Biplaw Singh’s own solo performance was a treat to the ears, and also to the eyes, because the Spanish musical pieces he played from Isaac Albéniz and Francisco Tárrega brought before the audience the images of the sun, the sea, the Mediterranean, and, of course, the lost romanticism that enthralled its pioneers in the 18th and the 19th century. This was something profusely captivating, it brought the virtuosity of the guitarist and went further to recreate the multi-cultural high-print of Kolkata’s lifestyle- the minds of its people and their thought-processes that had served the city to be what it is- the city of joy, then, now, and in the times to come.

The opening performances by Johannes and Biplaw were followed by Ahimsa, a four-piece world music ensemble. With Munich- based guitarist Matthias Muller and South Indian musician S. Radhakrishna who played a majestic stereophonic double violin supported ably by percussionists Udai Mazumdar and R. Yogaraja – their music blended the Carnatic music with Western Jazz that prompted a trip into territories of complex beautiful improvisations, the musical texture, if we may call it, was precise and innovative sometimes reminiscent of Shakti with John McLaughlin. In an other way, its an Interstellar Overdrive, a travel into realms of spacious consciousness where music is fluid and ever recreated by the illumined mind of its players. Their whole endeavour was refreshing, another hallmark of great musical expressions, here, the fascinating merged into brilliant musical overtures which the mind can only seize through its contemplative ears and meditative hearing. Of course, it was sheer entertainment, and as Littlei, the organization that produced the show confirmed, that it was just the beginning and not the last of surprises that await kolkata’s ardent music lovers.

The programme sponsored by the Siddha Group was hosted by Calcutta Classical Guitar Society and partnered by The Calcutta School of Music and RED FM 93.5 took place o 19th March, 2011 at 27, Ballygunge Park, Kolkata.

- Joy Roy Choudhury, ArtVantage, UK-India, http://art-vantage.co.uk/
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Useful Information:
Programme presented by Siddha Group: http://www.siddhagroup.com/
Produced by Littlei : http://littlei.in/
Hosted by Calcutta Classical Guitar Society: http://www.ccgs.in/
Event Partners: The Calcutta School of Music: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcutta_School_of_Music

Radio Partner: RED FM 93.5: http://radiotime.com/station/s_68909/Red_FM_935.aspx

Johannes Möller Website: http://www.johannesmoller.com/
Ahimsa Website: http://ahimsamusic.com/

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Artwork on Blind Willie Mctell, Samij Datta (25th Dec,2010)

2010-12-25T18:47:00.000-08:00

With Inspiration from Bob Dylan's Song Blind Willie Mctell
"...And I know no one can sing the blues like Blind Willie Mctell"- Bob Dylan

Title: Blind Harmonist of the Unforeseen Future
Artwork: Acrylic on board paper/ Year: 2010
Artist: Samij Datta/

Folk Series:Hari-Purusha (The Golden Body of the Lord)/Artist: Samij Datta

2010-12-15T03:06:00.000-08:00

"The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature and a divine life into the mental, vital and physical nature and life of humanity. Its object is not personal Mukti, although Mukti is a necessary condition of the yoga, but the liberation and transformation of the human being. It is not personal Ananda, but the bringing down of the divine Ananda -- Christ's kingdom of heaven, our Satyayuga -- upon the earth".- Sri Aurobindo

Title: Hari-Purusha (The Golden Body of the Lord)/Artist: Samij Datta
Year: 2010/Medium: Pen & Ink on black paper

Consciousness-Analogue

The Golden Fiddle and the Golden Feet
The Golden Lyre and the Golden Treat
Dancing in the eve-enchanted glory of the moon
With the minstrelsy of heaven’s Avalon
With bards and kings and their lonesome songs
Lovely to the eyes, clear was the sound
Of thousand bells that resembled the Song
Of Love that was coming from the Beyond.

- Joy Roy Choudhury, ArtVantage

The Art of the Dawn

2010-12-08T08:38:00.000-08:00

The Art of the Dawn

When the earth-mind awakes its senses
And the dim rustle of the leaves are heard on the forest floor
Time taught itself the eternity of the hours
That is poured from a wonder-cup in the helms of fire
A mystic song of prayer is hymned by the oxlips and the grasses
Down the river banks of a swelling tide
And mountains that stood like rocks carved by the great eye of the splendor of the Lord
Are flashed by rays of the Supreme Dawn.

- Joy Roy Choudhury

Introspection on the Lines of Savitri: An Exhibition of Symbols of Matter’s Trance, Sleep and Waking

2010-12-03T07:59:00.000-08:00

5. Title: Thy Prayer/ Artist: Samij Datta
With lines of inspiration from Savitri, The Book of the Divine Mother, Book III and The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, Canto III: “It sent its voiceless prayer to the Unknown;/It listened for the footsteps of its hopes/Returning through the void immensities,/ It waited for the fiat of the Word/That comes through the still self from the Supreme.”
Medium: Pen on Paper
Year: 2010/ Size: 10.7 x 7.8 inches

Introspection on the Lines of Savitri: An Exhibition of Symbols of Matter’s Trance, Sleep and Waking

2010-12-03T07:57:00.000-08:00

4. Title: Surrender/ Artist: Samij Datta
With lines of inspiration from Savitri, The Book of Love, Book V and Satyavan and Savitri, Canto III: “The Spirit was saved, the body lost and mute/Lived still with Death and ancient Ignorance;/The Inconscient was its base, the Void its fate./But thou hast come and all will surely change:/I shall feel the World-Mother in thy golden limbs/And hear her wisdom in thy sacred voice./The child of the Void shall be reborn in God,/My Matter shall evade the Inconscient’s trance./My body like my spirit shall be free./It shall escape from Death and Ignorance.”
Medium: Pen on Paper
Year: 2010/ Size: 10.7 x 7.8 inches

Introspection on the Lines of Savitri: An Exhibition of Symbols of Matter’s Trance, Sleep and Waking

2010-12-03T07:56:00.001-08:00

3. Title: Belief/ Artist: Samij Datta
With lines of inspiration from Savitri, The Book of Fate, Book VI and The Word of Fate, Canto I: “He sang of the glory and marvel still to be born,/Of Godhead throwing off at last its veil,/Of bodies made divine and life made bliss,/Immortal sweetness clasping immortal might,/Heart sensing heart, thought looking straight at thought,/And the delight when every barrier falls,/And the transfiguration and the ecstasy”.
Medium: Pen on Paper
Year: 2010/ Size: 10.7 x 7.8 inches

Introspection on the Lines of Savitri: An Exhibition of Symbols of Matter’s Trance, Sleep and Waking

2010-12-03T07:53:00.000-08:00

Title: Patience/ Artist: Samij Datta
With lines of inspiration from Savitri, The Book of Birth and Quest, Book IV, The Book of Birth and Quest, The Quest, Canto IV: “She rested drawing round her like a cloak/Its spirit of patient muse and potent prayer./Or near to a lion river’s tawny mane/And trees that worshipped on a praying shore,/A domed and templed air’s serene repose/Beckoned to her hurrying wheels to stay their speed.

Medium: Pen on Paper
Year: 2010/ Size: 10.7 x 7.8 inches

Introspection on the Lines of Savitri: An Exhibition of Symbols of Matter’s Trance, Sleep and Waking

2010-12-03T07:40:00.000-08:00

On the eve of 5th December, the day when Sri Aurobindo left his physical body, we like to invoke through prayers, the Great Spirit of the Supreme, to live in us and show us the path towards Immortality.

On the occasion, we present a small exhibition of paintings by Samij Datta with lines of inspiration from Savitri.

In the far distant realms of truth, we invoke the power of the Supermind to descend on the earthly stupor of material inconscience and only through this invocation and prayers and aspiration, we strengthen the possibility of this great Descent to raise matter from its depths of primal ignorance and infuse in it the life-fulfilling potentials of a higher consciousness and force that can sweep the earth of its old, grey feet and bring new leaves and the blossoming lotus.- Joy Roy Choudhury.

1. Title: Midnight-Cow/ Artist: Samij Datta
With lines of inspiration from Savitri, Book of Beginnings, Book I, The Symbol Dawn, Canto I: “It was the hour before the Gods awake./Across the path of the divine Event/The huge foreboding mind of Night, alone/In her unlit temple of eternity,/Lay stretched immobile upon Silence’ marge”.

Medium: Pen on Paper
Year: 2010/Size: 10.7 x 7.8 inches

The Swan of the Mystic Communion/Artist: Samij Datta

2010-10-16T22:27:00.001-07:00

Title: The Swan of the Mystic Communion
Artist: Samij Datta/Year: 2010
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper/Size: 20 x 20 cms
Price: On Application

Parvati

2010-10-08T09:47:00.000-07:00

Title: Parvati
Artist: Samij Dutta
Year:2010/Medium: Mixed Media on paper
Price: On Application

Consciousness-Analogue

Her eyes inspire
Felicity returns
From a moment lost in the grave
It comes back with immaculate seeds of immortality
Thou have immersed my body in thy watery eyes.

- Joy Roy Choudhury

Rasa Lila: Folk Art from Rajasthan

2010-08-24T06:13:00.001-07:00

Rasa Lila: The Dance of Divine Love, Radha & Krishna forever entwined in the Divine Play of Creation, 19th Century Folk Painting from Rajasthan

The Consciousness of Divine Love and How That Blossoms a New Age, Giving Birth to a New Time:

Consciousness-Analogue : Rasa-Lila

A pure cusp of love enfolds within
A dance of light encompasses the stars
Involuted is the birth of cosmic transcendence
The body lapsed into the woven music of the soul
Delight’s arms were stretched tenderly like the breeze
And birds caroled till the dusk-light was settled with the dews
And the moon came silently behind the honeyed groves
Enthralled the garden with its musk fragrance
A deep celestial concord rendered the scene
Filled were the senses with the rapture of springs
Unencumbered in the streams of paradise
Floating endlessly like a rainbow fish
Flowering like Judas in the forgiving heart
Or like the water hyacinths entwined forever
Where the crucifix of pain gives birth to its joy
Sorrows companions found the pleasure of life
In the warm hues of the golden ray
Immortal existence in a timeless body
A sweet fire-rhythm of silence’s flute
That breaks the barriers of the corporeal mind
And when the inward manifestation comes to the front
Omnipresent is the consciousness of the divine.

- Joy Roy Choudhury

Durga, Mithila Folk Art: From the Fire in the Sea and the Ether’s Tiger-Waves

2010-08-13T04:31:00.000-07:00

Durga: Folk-Art from Mithila, India. The painting narrates the story of Goddess Durga descending on earth to engage in the battle with Mahisasura, the buffalo-daemon, to save the human race from darkness, ignorance, immobility and death.

Consciousness-Analogue: This descent of higher forces to wipe out ignorance, pain, and suffering and death is taking place constantly within ourselves as an inner-struggle, an inner-war without escape. Soon a day will come when matter and spirit shall triumph over death and falsehood and will be One-light of the Heaven's Supreme Divinity. This is the time of the marriage of heaven and earth, the truth-consciousness will create the dream kingdom of god's light, and Sri Aurobindo's Rose of God will be planted in every human heart.

In line with the cosmic truth
She traversed the earth's seething walls
Affluent with the tide of time
And the enormous scope of future projection
Where the land is marshaled by lion’s own light
From the fire in the sea and the ether’s tiger-waves
She shall command the speechless act
That takes birth in the harmony of souls
And in the infinitesimal quarks of matter’s pristine self
Where hearts are interlocked by the true love and light
That pours through the vessels of innumerable atoms
The declensions of time and history are wiped out
The slate is clean like a spotless euphoria
It's the moment of the earth’s joy betrothed to heaven

- Joy Roy Choudhury

Radha and Krishna: Folk Art from Mithila, Bihar

2010-08-12T03:53:00.000-07:00

This is a typical Radha & Krishna Folk Painting from Mithila. These paintings are very rare as they carry the essence of natural spirituality and mytho-poeia in their narrative structures, composed with natural colors on recycled paper that tells something about sustainability, harmony and resource management.

ArtVantage is proud to bring to the audience these paintings that are done by artisans in the villages in India, they are a face of the bright India and of the world that is rising and rising like the inner-sun that never fades.

Radha and Krishna: Consciousness-Analogue

There awaiting the fruit of sweet revival
In the dense cloud of matter and mind
She alone in her splendor of dreams
Lighted the vast flame of imperial love
Where flowers bloomed and the bees hived
And the rapture of the seeds send signal to the rain
Beauty endorsed the last sight of love and bliss
And birds gathered at the honey-dusk of privilege
To hear the Lord’s singing refrains on nature’s paths
Led to by the wild breeze and the tulsi leaves
Silence harps on the moon’s vagabond flutes
Arrests time in the immemorial hearts
To say a few words or stare at the soul
In a wordless embrace and the conjugation of the stars
Create the cosmos again and again.

- Joy Roy Choudhury

Katia Peshakova’s solo art show “Made in India” to be unveiled at Jagannath Café, Moscow on 20th June 2010

2010-06-18T03:51:00.001-07:00

International Official Press Release:

Moscow, 18th June, 2010: Katia Peshakova’s enduring art involving Indian spirituality, myths and traditional archetypes are to be unveiled at the Jagannath Café in Moscow. This is her second solo exhibition in Moscow in recent times. Working mainly with acrylics, Katia’s art spans a long era of ancient history and the evolution of consciousness on earth. In times of recession, when the world is engaged in trying to recuperate from financial losses, these paintings help to create a link between the mind and the higher faith in the sustainability of nature, thereby, advancing the step towards further evolution and higher consciousness. Though these are paintings that can be categorized as the folk or mythological, yet, they are acute symbols embedded in the collective consciousness of the whole human race and their aspiration towards higher truth, light and knowledge. In fact, they are symbols of man’s progress in the 21st century towards further evolution in the matter and the spirit, and towards a future that is environmentally more safe and harmonious. Some of the paintings to be exhibited include, Lord Buddha, Ganesha, Govinda and more secular ones like fish-seller, music-player etc. These paintings are traditional ones following the history of Indian art and culture, but, in a way, they also relate to a universal consciousness of an earth governed by Love, Peace, Beauty and Knowledge. According to Mr. Jeff Ross, Director, ArtVantage, UK “it’s the sincerity combined with an honest endeavour that admires me about Katia’s art; the skill exhibited, the profusion of colours and the rhythmic dexterity is wonderful, it allows me to say that her works claim the concept that God is in the details”.

The exhibition will continue from 20th June, Sunday till 20th July Tuesday at the Jagannath Café, Moscow and one may not miss out a rare opportunity to see an Indian Summer and Monsoon of Colours at Moscow.

For further information on the exhibition, please get in touch with the Gallery at Jagannath Cafe, Moscow, Kuznetsky most 11.
Contact details: Ph: 8 903 739 5858/Email: anushila@me.com (Anna)
Website: http://www.jagannath.ru

ArtVantage, UK supports Katia’s Peshakova’s works and her exhibition, her gallery can be viewed at : http://www.art-vantage.co.uk/html/katia_peshakova.html

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New Art Exhibition: Timeless Deities/ Title: Bull-Turtle/Artist: Samij Datta, 2010

2010-06-14T06:27:00.000-07:00

New Art Exhibition: Timeless Deities
Title: Bull-Turtle/Artist: Samij Datta
Year: 2010
Medium: Mixed Media on paper

Note: Bull-Turtle
Each bright cluster breaks and renews
There are thin lines and jagged shapes
Thats how the death is defined in nature
Its piercing eyes tears the bull, threatens the turtle
There in the somber shadow under the sun
The broken fragments are arranged laterally
As if the heart knew the pain of suffering
And can reassemble the ruins of Guernica
That if its true then the art has lived
To a given time that holds the key
And the consciousness slowly comes with the light.

- Joy Roy Choudhury

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New Art Exhibition: Timeless Deities, An Invocation to the Spirit of the Ancient Mother, Part II (Fish-Angel)/Artist: Samij Datta, 2010

2010-06-08T06:07:00.000-07:00

New Art Exhibition: Timeless Deities/ Artist Samij Datta
Title: An Invocation to the Spirit of the Ancient Mother (part II)/Fish-Angel
Year: 2010
Medium: Ink on Paper

Note: An Invocation to the Spirit of the Ancient Mother (part II)/Fish-Angel

Fish-angel’s eyes can dream and see
The world without the paintbrush and its strokes
The bare thread of life’s tragedy, the gloss and the glee
The comedy of its vanishing ideal, the empty mirror of its self
It looks through them and dissects every finite existence
Sees the role of time and the dimension of its space
The knowledge in the void, the cavity in the rocks
The meek surrender to the dissembled forces and strength
And the pride and the anguish and the terror and the pain
All these can change with the god-light is near
When the angel flashes her great golden beam
Sunlight and shadows though they sideways exist
Eternity merges the seer-light and the sea
Then from the fire is born the first miraculous fish
A precarious emblem of the sun-task and resurrection
An originator of the spiritual bliss
The food that supports the sustainability and growth
To her we pray to configure our lives.

- Joy Roy Choudhury

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New Art Exhibition: River-Ant (Timeless Deities)/Artist: Samij Datta, 2010

2010-05-27T06:15:00.000-07:00

New Art Exhibition: Timeless Deities/Artist: Samij Datta
Title: River-Ant
Year: 2010
Medium: Pen on paper
Size: 28 cm x 27 cm

Note: River-Ant
All that purifies the mind is a sweet flow of love
From the higher heights descending into the farthest sea
In between the pebbles and the rock,
The river-ant sings a song, blows the pipe
That nature’s path has led to these doors
Perceptible seeing justifies the inner substance of being
Rarefies the rhythm, perpetuates the order
Of existence, consciousness and bliss
And in the chaos finds the puissance and calm.
- Joy Roy Choudhury

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New Art Exhibtion: Zen-Poet (Timeless Deities)/Artist: Samj Datta, 2010

2010-05-27T05:57:00.000-07:00

New Art Exhibition: Timeless Deities/Artist: Samij Datta
Title: Zen-Poet
Year: 2010
Medium: Pen on paper
Size: 28 cm x 27 cm

Note: Zen-Poet
An invisible relation exists
Between the poet and the flower
Each deriving the ecstasy and dance
From the sap of the golden sun
A conscious existence thus comes to the fore
Opening the secret petals of the Mother
Divinizing the beauty of Zen solitude
In the ancient matter’s luminous sound
There’s the winged-marvel of the mind of gods
Its point of bliss, the prayer, the dream
Heralding the prophet morns of tea-rose and laughter
And the fragrance swept over the garden and hills.
- Joy Roy Choudhury

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New Art Exhibition: Grace-Eagle (Timeless Deities)/Artist:Samij Datta, 2010

2010-05-26T07:33:00.000-07:00

New Art Exhibition: Timeless Deities/ Artist: Samij Datta
Title: Grace-Eagle
Year: 2010
Medium: Pen on paper
Size: 28 cm x 27 cm

Note: Grace-Eagle
The smooth harvest of reason
Is not born from any paradigm of thought and logic
But from the empyrean silence of the eagle-mind
Where on the summit, the forces of the intuitive reflex
In grace and solitude earn the blessings of time
And redirect the world towards unity and love.
- Joy Roy Choudhury

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New Art Exhibition: Title: Snow-Cow (Timeless Deities)/ Artist: Samij Datta, 2010

2010-05-26T07:22:00.000-07:00

New Art Exhibition: Timeless Deities/ Artist: Samij Datta
Title: Snow-Cow/ Year: 2010
Medium: Pen on paper
Size: 28 cm x 27 cm

Note: Snow-Cow
To the divine Aditi there is a prayer
A formless embodiment of the snow-cow
Its folio of pink lights has mastered time and eternity
Through it the sages may return
Through it the seers are manifested again
Invoking the timeless deities that creation constructs
Ineffable the spirit lies within the fire
And from it is born the Illimitable Will.
- Joy Roy Choudhury

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New Art Exhibition: Title: Time-Hen (Timeless Deities)/Artist: Samij Datta, 2010

2010-05-25T06:01:00.000-07:00

New Art Exhibition: Timeless Deities
Title: Time-Hen/ Artist: Samij Datta
Year: 2010
Medium: Pen on paper

Note: Time-Hen
The golden hen was a gift of time
Manifested from the sun’s eternal self
And from the abode of truth, from immortality
From the far distant stars of the supernal birth
In the plaque of the seers this was foretold thrice
The second coming of the man-in-god.
- Joy Roy Choudhury

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New Art Exhibition: Title: Wild Horse (Timeless Deities)/Artist:Samij Datta, 2010

2010-05-25T05:44:00.000-07:00

New Art Exhibition: Timeless Deities
Title: Wild Horse/ Artist: Samij Datta
Year: 2010
Medium: Pen on paper
Size: 28 cm x 27 cm

Note: Wild Horse
A flaming aurora of the Arctic sun
Ran like a wild horse of the seven seas
Energizing the earth’s gravity and mass
Descending like a rainbow over the Arcturus hills
In the dream-vision, the mind and the senses lapse
Only the spirit clutches the clock of time
As the sun speeds the jewels in wheels that moves.
- Joy Roy Choudhury

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New Art Exhibition/Timeless Deities, Sky-Rat, Artist: Samij Datta, 2010

2010-05-24T23:55:00.000-07:00

New Art Exhibition: Timeless Deities
Title: Sky-Rat/Artist: Samij Datta
Year: 2010
Medium: Pen on paper
Size: 28 cm x 27 cm

Note: Sky-Rat
The mother of forms arose from the sea
After the last ship has smoked across the horizon
The invisible formless is beginning to emerge
Under the starry nights’ alter of caves
And the stupendous silence of time,
Crept in like a sky-rat in that etherized space
Swollen heavy with the hues of Neptune’s grace
Lay open like a verse of the supramental flower
The rhythms of fragrance bestowed the peace
And there was a ceaseless flow of the moonlit dance.- Joy Roy Choudhury

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New Art Exhibition/Title: Mountain-Fox (Timeless Deities)/Artist: Samij Datta, 2010

2010-05-24T20:56:00.000-07:00

New Art Exhibition Theme: Timeless Deities (Return to the Centre)/Artist: Samij Datta
Title: Mountain-Fox
Medium: Mixed Media on paper

Note: Mountain-Fox

There was the magic in the lotus pools
The splendor burned with the eternity of peace
Looked into the bosom of the moon’s mirror
White crystalline streams and the mountain-fox
That climbed the sources of the power and light
And the bliss and the beauty and the harmony of all
Never can they fail the labor the toil the march
The spark burst from the seeds of spring
Shall weave the color of the new pollinating time
That holds the future in its winding breast. - Joy Roy Choudhury

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New Art Exhibition: Timeless Deities/Returning to the Centre, Samij Datta, 2010

2010-05-24T11:40:00.000-07:00

New Art Exhibition by ArtVantage/ Theme: Timeless Deities/ Artist: Samij Datta

1. Title: Sea-Dog/Year: 2010
Medium: Mixed Media on paper

Note: Sea-Dog

Withdrawing itself from the tip of time
The sea-dog watches in its timeless run
The miracle-sun’s cyclic rondure
It’s path of events in the descent of light
Terminating the blind mute walls of the earthly matter
And piercing the sigma of life with its truth
Foreseeing the end and the beginning of all
In the carved seas pyramid limbs,
The sun has fostered a supramental birth.- Joy Roy Choudhury

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New Art: An Invocation to the Spirit of the Ancient Mother/Artist: Samij Datta, 2010

2010-05-23T06:35:00.000-07:00

New Art/ Title: An Invocation to the Spirit of the Ancient Mother
Artist: Samij Datta/ Year: 2010
Medium: Ink on paper
Size: 19 cm x 35 cm

Note: An Invocation to the Spirit of the Ancient Mother
Unintelligible verses of the matter’s spirit
Floats in the air as like in a dream
They are unheard of or thought or sung
By men who won the plaudits of a civilized race
These unfashionable archetypes mean nothing but a dream
A vast romantic empire of an old worshipped-time
In the stone artifacts, the fire was an emblem
A sperm, a gene, a liquid invocation
To the primal birth of the ancient sun
The hieroglyph of the moon,
The wine of the Easter
The supra cosmic mandala of the Zen mind
A point undiminished, the central apex of the bud
The perfect haiku of the lotus petals
Revolving around the months of the bees and the sacred star
To redeem the time to manifest the light
One walks a long way on the sands looking at the sea
He thinks the waves may crush and oppose the All
But the turtle waits ever so peacefully
It knows the last big wave is the least of all
The earth has moved to the time of the resurrection of love. - Joy Roy Choudhury

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2010-05-20T04:07:00.000-07:00

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In Search of the Orgin/ Artist Samij Datta, India, 2010

2010-05-20T03:55:00.000-07:00

New Artist Series. Title: In Search of the Origin/ Artist: Samij Datta, India
Year of Composition: 2010
Medium: Mixed Media on paper
Size: 36 cm x 34 cm
Price: On Application.

Note: The painting is divided into 4 blocks each narrating a part of the "Unmanifest Manifest" of the divine cosmos. The ones that are diagonally opposite have a resemblance to the what is known and unknown to us.

For more info, please contact Joy Roy Choudhury, ArtVantage at e.aryans@gmail.com/artvantage.uk@gmail.com

The Sarah Bernhardt Collection: Paintings by Steven Kent

2010-05-13T03:44:00.000-07:00

Remembering Sarah Bernhardt
Steven Kent, an emerging entrepreneurial artist from Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk has paid a beautiful and fascinating tribute to the late Sarah Bernhardt, whom the world recognised as one the most famous actress in the circa of theatre. Sarah who joined the Odéon theatre in 1866 was often known to sleep in coffins while resting because she explained that it helped her understand the magnanimity of tragic roles as an actress. In 1900, Bernhardt took up the challenge debuting as Hamlet in the two minute long film Le Duel d'Hamlet in 1900. Though she claimed to be an atheist, her personality and her theatrical performances often gives us a rare glimpse of her strength, her spiritual persona, and, her golden voice.

Steven's paintings portray the different facets of this theatrical personality and help us take a nostalgic route to the 19th Century Literary and Cultural Circa to rediscover some of the glories which we have left behind in the closets of history. Art plays an important part in restoring art and tradition, and this probably, had T.S. Eliot been alive, would have said. Steven's paintings take us back into a world that is both timeless and time-born.

The Painting of Sarah Bernhardt here is titled "A Pensive Sarah". It's done with acrylic on canvas in 2007 and has dimensions 48.5 cm by 64 cm.

Artvantage, UK is promoting Steven's iconic work THE SARAH BERNHARDT COLLECTION, please feel free to view the works at http://art-vantage.co.uk

Earlier, Artvantage has promoted Samij Datta's paintings based on Charles Baudelaire's poetry which could be seen at: http://www.charlesbaudelaire.co.uk

We would welcome your thoughts and opinions on the same.

- Joy Roy Choudhury, Creative Director, Consultant and Writer, ArtVantage.
Email: e.aryans@gmail.com/ artvantage.uk@gmail.com

Corporate Art: Title: Anno Urbis Conditae (2010), Artist: Samij Datta

2010-05-07T07:46:00.000-07:00

Art Detail:

Title: Anno Urbis Conditae (2010)
Artist: Samij Datta
Medium: Mixed Media on paper
Dimension: 18 cm x 18 cm
Price: on Application
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Corporate Art: Title: Italy (2010), Artist: Samij Datta

2010-05-07T07:41:00.000-07:00

Art Detail:
Title: Italy (2010)
Artist: Samij Datta
Medium: Mixed Media on paper
Dimension: 18 cm x 18 cm
Price: On Application

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Corporate Art (Folk): Title: Maa Parvati, Artist: Katia Peshakova

2010-05-07T04:07:00.000-07:00

Corporate Art Details:
Category: Folk/Myth
Title: Maa Parvati
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 50 cm x 60 cm
Price on Application

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Corporate Art (Folk): Title: Mohini, Artist: Katia Peshakova (2010)

2010-05-07T03:59:00.000-07:00

Art Details
Title: Mohini/Year: 2010
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 40 cm x 70 cm
Artist: Katia Peshakova (Russia)

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Corporate Art: Title: South Wind (2007), Artist: Samij Datta

2010-05-07T03:46:00.000-07:00

Specifications
Artist: Datta, Samij
Title: South Wind
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 61cm cm x 51cm (W x H)
Price:Price on application

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Corporate Art: Title: City of Red Doors (2007)/Artist:Samij Datta

2010-05-07T00:13:00.000-07:00

Specifications
Artist: Datta, Samij
Title: City of Red Doors
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 61cm x 51cm (W x H)
Price: Price on application
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Corporate Art: Title: Woodblock Summer/Artist: Samij Datta (2007)

2010-05-06T23:24:00.000-07:00

Specifications
Artist: Datta, Samij
Title: Farm House
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 61cm x 51cm (W x H)
Price:Price on application

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Corporate Art: Ganesha/Artist: Samij Datta (2010)

2010-05-06T09:05:00.000-07:00

Corporate Art for Sale: Title Ganesha, Corporate Mosaic Spectrum/ Artist: Samij Datta/Medium: Mixed Medium on Paper/Dimensions: 29 cm x 29 cm/ Year: 2010 / Price on Application. For further information to purchase, please contact Joy Roy Choudhury, ArtVantage, UK at e.aryans@gmail.com or artvantage.uk@gmail.com. Website: http://art-vantage.co.uk/