Ashok Bhowmick's unique technique of Crosshatch is very intriguing. His master strokes carefully place uneven, minute hatches in some places, precisely defining Crosshatch at others, and polished tone in the most finished areas. A perfect combination of lay down tones and his perfect stroke hatch. His drawing comes out of an etcher's sensibility. He can do so much with simple shapes, immaculately working on wispy fine lines and riveting into strong abstract cubic figures.
As...
Ashok Bhowmick's unique technique of Crosshatch is very intriguing. His master strokes carefully place uneven, minute hatches in some places, precisely defining Crosshatch at others, and polished tone in the most finished areas. A perfect combination of lay down tones and his perfect stroke hatch. His drawing comes out of an etcher's sensibility. He can do so much with simple shapes, immaculately working on wispy fine lines and riveting into strong abstract cubic figures.
Ashok Bhowmick is primarily a monochromatic artist, confining his work largely to black-and-white imagery. His subtle style immaculately reflects the symbiosis of humans and nature. The frequent depiction of a canary or a bird beyond any doubt proves that. With such simplicity, with such prudence of means, he communicates Mutualism. He makes an incredible human statement with his peculiar style and scheme of crosshatch. His art also portrays modern contemporary cubism, rendering it with dots and cross hatching technique. It's indeed a recherché art to name and definitely a record breaking achievement in the genre, with almost more than two thousand paintings in his credit. As Ashok Bhowmick rightly points out, "For me, painting is a means of getting messages across to people, for connecting with people, for reaching out."
His notion that stories can be proffered elegantly using basic geometric shapes as has been the idea of many great artists as well. To paint using an abstraction or twisted perspective has always been challenging. A twisted perspective allows an artwork to show an object from more than one angle simultaneously. The exclusive style of cross hatch in Ashok Bhowmick's paintings emphasize that factor in a very distinct way.
The usage of monochromatic colours and incompatible lighting in cubism unlike in naturalism tend to reduce or exclude the depiction of object or subject matter in its accurate form as we are used to witness. It takes a Master's imagination to separate the light and shadow, Ashok Bhowmick with his impeccable hatch work brings it conveniently on his canvases. His paintings flawlessly characterize the composite idea of objects in limited variation of light. A perfect illustration of cubism.
