Chirantan Ghosh’s Painting Blog

কুন্তী or Kunti was a character of the Mahabharata.She tried to be an ideal mother of the protagonists, Pandavas. Alas, she was only a human...

  aham brahmāsmi (अहं ब्रह्मास्मि / অহং ব্রহ্মাস্মি) is a  Mahāvakya  (one of the summaries) of the  Upanishads  from the  Yajur Veda . It m...

Dear তিয়াদি (Tia Di), We miss you! Didn’t know that someday I’ll paint this. Had I been gifted, would write a requiem, a music that matched...

A renowned oncologist from the US happens to be my namesake and someone I respect like an elder brother. How does one repay the kindness of ...

 কল্মষমোষিণি in Bengali means the one who brings about the end of sins or darkness. This adjective is bestowed upon the deity, mother Durga,...

This 12” x 24” mixed media painting is my reaction to the massacre of Pehelgam , where innocent tourists were gunned down by terrorists. Los...

উড়ন্ত (Uronto) literally means flying… for me it’s more than that. It’s also about freedom, precision and engineering marvel of nature. Thi...

আলাপন or Alapon means communion. This could be of colors and emotions. This 8” x 10” mixed media painting is an adaptation of a previous ser...

পবন or Pawan literally means the wind. This mixed media painting is 12” x 15” and it explores the boundaries of traditional landscape with f...

লোহিতা (Lohita): Crimsona is a 22” x 29” exploration in mixed media to test out a technique of brushstrokes. This is a painting where I want...

“ Hemonto ” means autumn in Bengali (my mother tongue and an eastern Indian language). The word implies not just the arrival of winter but a...

“ Gacchati ” is a Pali (one of the ancient Indian languages) word that implies to move toward … now, that could be toward one’s goal or futu...

अहम् (Aham) means self in Sanskrit. It is journey to discover oneself, that one is a part of all. This is a mixed media painting 21”x27”, in...

Concentrix - Our world is governed by butterfly effects, every action creates a ripple of equal and opposite reactions. Why not try to sav...

গণেশ ( গণ - ঈশ ) Dedicated to Lord Ganesha

This is a mixed media painting done on a wooden panel with a compatible range of acrylic colors that blend well with the organic powder colo...

This is a mixed media 24" x 36" painting inspired by ERB's (Edgar Rice Burroughs) novels. The Sun is considered perfect and g...

This one is dedicated to my lil sis - দ্বিতীয়া. Mixed media 24" x 36", finished 18th Oct '14

Dwaar or Doorway is another adaption of "Temptation"

Mixed media 24" x 30" - A tribute to the master, Jackson Pollock. তর্পণ (Torpon) or tarpan is an Indian ritual of remember...

This is an adaptation of my earlier painting "Biporit"... yeah I love riot of colors!   "The world is not dialectical - it i...

This is a digital media art inspired during the Durga Pujas.

Me and my paintings, both are sorta twisted...here goes "Reticulated" in mixed media. We always tend to focus...majorly in the ce...

Mixed Media: Pensil on paper, wee bit touched up in photoshop. As a kid, I used to be quite a handful and my quite natured Thammu (Grandma)...

This is a mixed media painting quite close to my heart. “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." — Oscar Wilde, ...

Today is Bijoya Doshomi, the day Ma Durga goes away from her children for a year - a pang every Hindu/Bengali feels... But I can't fa...

Today India lost one of her gems, in my humble offering, I salute him.

Oil on wood board 1' x 2'

The original is 9" x 7" - prints available Took a little creative liberty on "Neonate"

Mixed Media - This is a homage to the eternal Bengali Poet, Kobiguru Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর, Robindronath Ţhaku...

Pastel on panel - Lord knows who has the original? Found a digital copy of my college days work...

Hello Friends and Art Lovers, Recently, I discovered my art can do a little bit more than become a decorative piece at someone's collect...

Panel painting - changes color and shows a different angle with change of light.

Life is an intimate mix of opposites and complementary colors. This is an oil, acrylic and holi pigment paints on unprimed wood.

Indian mythologies talks about Apocalypse brought by Bramha, Vishnu and Maheshwar - all that was pure from origin and all that of sin mix to...

What is more interesting than the journey of two souls uniting? ~ To my precious ones, who chose to overlook all my flaws. Oil, Acrylic,...

A journey from Spring to Fall.

The word কলিকা (Kolika) means a ‘bud’ i.e. the promise of the flower to come. I was born in Kolkata(Calcutta). This picture brings in the sy...

At one point, man is beyond suffering - tested by surrounding and fate - at that moment, one awaits the inevitable truth reflecting upon th...

Abstract paintings can be best seen when one squints their eyes... ~ To my sweet lil sis, for all the fights and giggles (who likes to call...

Ancient Egyptians believed Life was like the stages of a river. One who rides the wave of time...

There is always a bridge...Light to Dark, Past to Future and Love to Hate.

When all fades away, all that is left is the conscience of "self"/Aham and its experiences.

This is dedicated to this special day in our life.

Be the blade of direction or the colorful experience of Life...I am but just a leaf!