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Ananta Mandal

Mumbai, India
Artist (Painting)
Born unknown date

Ananta Mandal, originally from West Bengal, lives and creates in Mumbai, India. He moved there in 2007, after completing his Bachelor of Visual Arts in the discipline of Graphic Design and Applied Art with First Class from Govt. College of Art & Craft at Calcutta University, Kolkata.

During his college days, Ananta bagged many national and international awards. From participating in the prestigious Harmony Art show, Mumbai in 2008, his excellent achievements include the First Place Award from 36th International Exhibition at the Watercolor Art Society-Houston, USA in 2013, The Winsor & Newton Excellence Award from Northwest Watercolor Society, USA in 2012, Award for Best Landscape in Watercolor from The Bombay Art Society, Mumbai, in both 2006 and 2011, and many more. 

Ananta is known as an expressive and imaginative painter. His paintings are mostly created in impressionist manner and surrealist way in various mediums like watercolor, oil and acrylic. He has developed a highly individual style, deeply contemporary in its sensibilities. His paintings are best known for realistic urban landscapes. His brush stroke speaks of many things: the hustle and bustle of modern city life, figurative movements, festive seasons, seascapes and lakes, the time endured by old railway steam engine, tropical desert, and the many moods of nature; where fluid moments are brilliantly captured by the artist. He has also gained recognition for his surrealistic paintings. His youthful exuberance and his wide-eyed optimism reflect in the paintings. He has a fine sense of composition with an eye for subtle details and a tactile sense of monsoon atmospherics. Ananta has shown with considerable skill, how in the presence of rain, human activities are endowed with a special beauty. His water colors are bright and sensuous but their atmosphere evokes a strange mysteriousness.

His sketchy use of acrylic and oil, lends his figures vitality and fluidity of motion with surface wrinkles; his color and tonal compositions set up a dynamic encounter in a neutral space fraught with ambiguity. Different textures, add to the meaning and depth of his artworks while contrast between transparent areas and thick, solid paint with varying intensity of strokes, gives surface a palpable quality.

Ananta is a member of numerous art organizations, including Member of The Pennsylvania Watercolor Society 2012-13, San Diego Watercolor Society, U.S.A. - 2008-09, Philadelphia Watercolor Society, U.S.A. - 2008-09. Life Member of the Bombay Art Society, the Art Society of India, Mumbai.

Outside of painting, he conducts workshops in artistry and makes experimental films and video installations based on his paintings, and enjoys photography.

His works can be viewed in numerous public and private collections worldwide.

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