Selected works by Ashok Bhowmick

An Unaffected Ease Certain of the human representations in Ashok Bhowmick's often pen and ink works may be imagined to wheedle a smile out of the viewer. Such being those like the jester, the madman and the dwarf. But, as a matter of fact, they move in a disparate world from the actual one. Even when they happen to take off from the glaringly apparent, they are remote - a world in which not workaday reason but imagination or fantasy hold sway. If the artist uses similitude, he does so simply as a means to stimulate our imaginal sympathies. The nature of…