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| Uddip Talukdar The forgotten face |
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| Claude Monet, Impression,1872 |
It’s paradoxical.
I started to work on a story with the idea that I will fictionalize the
impressionist art movement. No, I will not write about art
history but I will take spirit of the art movement as a theme for the new
story. The idea of building a story out of a painting came to my mind when I
came across this painting being made by one of my friend. I took the required permission
and I fixed the title of the Story –Impressionism (চিহ্নবাদ). But those of you who have little idea about art history will defiantly say
that this painting doesn’t belong to the –impressionist genre.
This story is all about genesis. Conception of the story is somewhat similar to how some new and awkward art style was named as ‘impressionist’ by a sarcastic comment of art critique. A Claude Monnet work ‘Impression, Sunrise’ (1860) that was criticized as ‘Impression — I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it … and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape.* (See wiki for detail by clicking here) Gradually the art form used in ‘Impression,’ became a style in itself. full of visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities * for detail click here
When I saw the work The Forgotten Face for the first the impression was that of pain of genesis (of creation /creator or procreation).The impression created by the painting, idea of creation and the pain associated with the whole compulsive process was so overpowering that gradually it took the form of a story 'Cihnabad’ (ছিহ্ণবাদ not প্রতিতীবাদ which is the literal translation of impressionism in Assamese). Sometimes I feel I should have destroyed the story soon after I finished because of the negativity of the story or the story might have hurt a few people.
Later on I decided
against it. As I believe the product of that huge traumatic mental
exercise was not just a case of pseudocyasis but if we continue with the flow
we might find some answer to our eternal problems.
Also read# :Fictionalizing DADAISM
