Re-encountering Fantasy and Humor

Fantasy is aided by humour on the canvas of Ramu Das. For Ramu Das becoming an artist was a childhood dream. “My grandfather was an artist and I grew up watching him draw and paint as a young boy. Since then I think I always wanted to be an artist myself, I wanted to do what he was doing,” says Ramu. The student of fine arts from the Visva Bharti University in Santiniketan, Kolkata, recently put up his latest collection of works, ‘Re-encountering fantasy and humour’ at New Delhi’s Kumar Art Gallery. The exhibition consisted of 20 paintings, all acrylic…