ART OF ASUDEV (Short Version)
Channel: ANUTOSH DEB
Date: 09/08/2020

ASUDEV, a pioneer visual artist of Assam. was born on 13 December 1917 at Dhubri in Lower Assam, INDIA. A self taught artist with little or no patronage from any source, he began his journey in artistic pursuit during the 1930’s and continued with the same zeal and enthusiasm till the last day of his life. ASUDEV created about 180 paintings and sculptures. He expired on 06 February 1983 at Guwahati Assam INDIA.
In the write-up by Eminent Poet Navakanta Baruah 
“There are no lines in nature, only shapes”-Asuda (the Late Asu Dev) used to tell us, “and that’s why I break up outlines into dots.” It is not a mathematical voice stating that lines do not exist-they are a continuum of points. Nor was it a distant-echo of Seurat and his pointillism delving deep into the optics of colour perception. Nevertheless, in most of Asu Dev’s paintings we face a granular or cellular texture created by his similar ways of applying pigments. This is something which no viewer would fail to observe. Instead of dabbing paints with a spatula as is the want of many contemporary painters, or even with a flat brush. Asu Dev painstakingly covered large areas with dots too big to be called points and too small to be called impressionistic patches. Even the powerful strokes with which he made his sketches were subdued by these dots as if to break up the lines into converging shapes...
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