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Man with the golden flute by Suman Gupta (2016)
36 in x 36 in, Acrylic on Canvas

...A man in the northern mountain valleys of India plays flute as the sun sets across the valley daubing the backdrop in a veil of faint darkness. The artist Suman Gupta from Jammu translates the surroundings in perfect proportions like a photo realist. But into his works he adds a small element of surrealism with a play of light on the faces of his subjects. Suman Gupta's felicity with his palette is more an accomplishment that makes his works succinct, and simple to read and understand. The realization of these paintings down to the last photographic detail has a directness of expression that shows through the symbolism and references which might layer the viewer's experience of the painted spaces.

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Deep River Valley by Suman Gupta (2016)
36 in x 36 in, Acrylic on Canvas

...Another gem by accomplished artist Suman Gupta, a 3 x 3 feet canvas titled, 'Deep River Valley', captures the thoughtful stance of a young boy sitting by a river, captured in a realistic style and setting. It's highlights the young boy's thought process and sets us wondering about what he's reflecting on.

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The Lotus Hunters by Suman Gupta (2014)
36 in x 36 in, Acrylic on Canvas

...The realization of the Lotus Hunters down to the last photographic detail has a directness of expression that shows through the symbolism and references which might layer the viewer’s experience of the painted spaces. In that sense the technique lends a transparency to the artistic conceits and the inescapable pressures of having to reinstate one’s genre, sources and historicity.

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Night Shadow by Suman Gupta (2014)
30 in x 21 in, Acrylic on Canvas

...In this composition, what is immediately moving is the treatment of the local landscape with the human figure. Drawn faithfully from nature, the mundane landscape of provincial hinterlands evokes revisitations and new recognitions, breaking the seemingly familiar with unexpected surrealism. The lone figure inhabiting the nightscape is self-absorbed within the landscape, like inside a folktale. Figure and ground recede into each other as an integral whole. Here the real and tangible, copied from life, without breaching any physical law of nature, has assumed a heightened ethereality; the more precise the details, the more fantastic it seems. All these give the impression of an autonomous passage of time inside the painting.

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The Corn field by Suman Gupta (2015)
36 in x 48 in, Acrylic on Canvas

...'The Cornfield', a 3 x 4 ft canvas by the highly accomplished artist Suman Gupta captures the rural essence of Jammu & Kashmir, where the artist is based. The atmosphere of the corn plants, combined with the young corn-pickers and the birds hovering around, is both magical and alluring, drawing us to a world of nature's bounty at its best.

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