The bricolage waters.

Bricolage with The brush wiping cloth.

Bricolage made from the wiping cloth by Biswarup Chaudhuri sometime between 1984 to 1988. He was gifted with spontaneous creativity. 


There is so much art and beautiful creation made unintentionally by us in our daily activity. It merely needs an intent by the observer. It exists even without our oservation or identification. During the intense state of creative activity by an artist , deeply engrossed in exploiting the potential of union of the canvas and the paint, each wipe on the wiping cloth must carry an intermittent summation of the thoughts of colours. And if so for colours, then why not a splendrous essence of imagination. One or more or many days, months and maybe years of evolving thoughts may be impregnated within the tattered cloth, very intimately held by the artist. It is a superb relationship and often under recognised by any observer obsessed by formal beauty. The observer obviously cannot make much meaning because his senses are preoccupied by pre-existing motif forms presented with an intent on the canvas. Only a loitering mind maybe able to evaluate, perceive and interpret a suggestion in the disarray of strokes on the lost canvas.

Bricolage is a form of art which is popular for more than a century now. I first saw one in the collection of works by Picasso. Because  letters are familiar, the observers attention tends to focus conveniently on the written matter which is most likely to be meaningless. But then a context is made by the presence of other elements on the canvas. After all, written language borrowed the symbols from the visual world at some time to record the language of sounds. It feels like bricolage is a rediscription of the sense of the word or may be the sound. It also gives a hint about the intention of the artist. As described by Saymour Papert , there is an element of trying and playing around with the language symbols within the canvas under the directions of the artists mind. Whether it belongs to high mordernism or to the post modern period is purely academic but it appears to as primitive as the art of home making and creating edible food except for the difference in the medium. 

Pratyush Chaudhuri 2017


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