Arupadas

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Arupdas was born in Chinsurah on 5 July 1927 and spent his childhood in this beautiful town, which had a continuous influence on his art. His mother was a skilled artist. In 1945, he took admission in the Government School of Art, Calcutta. He took considerable inspiration from the paintings in the collection of a Thakur woman named ‘Shrimati’.

In the beginning, he painted rural scenes, clumps of bamboo, date palm groves, rural huts, surrounding greenery, simple daily life of rural people, paddy cultivation, activities of rural women, etc. His talent was evident in these early paintings. It was beginning to become clear in which the patterns of wall deco