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Book Reviews of Ink and Line
The Hindu ReviewIn two new books, published as a pair by Author Press, Sukrita plays with colours and words to present little slices of life, complete with a palpable ambiguity that allows for multiple layers, facets and interpretations. A poet and a painter, as well as a literary critic, teacher and translator, Sukrita puts together her own paintings and poems in ‘Untitled’, but collaborates with Sonnet Mondal in ‘Ink and Line’, where her paintings and sketches stand side by side with Mondal’s words, adding yet another layer to the book.
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Muse IndiaBe it a poet or a painter, the need to move beyond the limiting experiences of life and reality and reach an aesthetic, idealized, utopian realm is compellingly necessary. From such ‘moving beyond’ and yet ‘being rooted’ sprung this remarkable production with its enriching offer of poetry and paintings making readers feel doubly gifted. The warp and woof of this creative work is woven by the design of two minds – Sukrita Paul Kumar- the painter, Sonnet Mondal, the poet, hence one can feel a palpable creative sensitivity and fine thought density. The dual dimensions of the fluidity of the poetry and flourish of the paintings stimulate one in a unified manner. In this book, the artist and the poet come together - with each painting/sketch by Sukrita, appears a poem on the facing page, written by Sonnet Mondal.
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Rising KashmirInk and Line is the collection of paintings and poems summarize in two celebrated dicta— “painting within poetry” and “poetry within painting”. It is a collection of unique experiment of ekphrastic poetry where paintings decode poetry and poetry explains paintings in an artistic way. Well known examples of ekphrastic poetry, that use art for inspiration are John Keats and P.B Shelley. The visual representation by bringing the image into language and language into image, an ideal conflation of pen and brush, has its roots in the Renaissance. The most influential idea of the Renaissance, the “humanistic theory”, and “ut picture poesis: the imitation of idealized nature in art”, sprung to life during the Renaissance from Aristotle’s Poetics and Horace's Ars Poetica. Some renaissance artists and critics like Leon Battista Alberti, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino known as Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci shouldered Aristotle’s idea of ideal imitation and Lee Krasner says, “Painting rises above the mere imitation of things with direct experience to nature.”The theory ut picture poesis—as is painting so is poetry— developed by renaissance art critics in an attempt to get for painting the heights of pride and honor that poetry had received as an art since ages.
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Red Fez journalIn India we don't have many publishers who are willing to publish a book of poetry traditionally, and in most cases the poets (except for a distinguished few) end up opting for vanity presses. Here is an exception; Ink and Line has been traditionally published, and it is an atypical collection of untitled poems that were written inspired by a few paintings and sketches. In this book we have Sonnet Mondal, a widely published and an award winning poet as one of the authors, while the other is a well-known poet and translator, Sukrita who has done the paintings.
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Muse IndiaBe it a poet or a painter, the need to move beyond the limiting experiences of life and reality and reach an aesthetic, idealized, utopian realm is compellingly necessary. From such ‘moving beyond’ and yet ‘being rooted’ sprung this remarkable production with its enriching offer of poetry and paintings making readers feel doubly gifted. The warp and woof of this creative work is woven by the design of two minds – Sukrita Paul Kumar- the painter, Sonnet Mondal, the poet, hence one can feel a palpable creative sensitivity and fine thought density. The dual dimensions of the fluidity of the poetry and flourish of the paintings stimulate one in a unified manner. In this book, the artist and the poet come together - with each painting/sketch by Sukrita, appears a poem on the facing page, written by Sonnet Mondal.
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Rising KashmirInk and Line is the collection of paintings and poems summarize in two celebrated dicta— “painting within poetry” and “poetry within painting”. It is a collection of unique experiment of ekphrastic poetry where paintings decode poetry and poetry explains paintings in an artistic way. Well known examples of ekphrastic poetry, that use art for inspiration are John Keats and P.B Shelley. The visual representation by bringing the image into language and language into image, an ideal conflation of pen and brush, has its roots in the Renaissance. The most influential idea of the Renaissance, the “humanistic theory”, and “ut picture poesis: the imitation of idealized nature in art”, sprung to life during the Renaissance from Aristotle’s Poetics and Horace's Ars Poetica. Some renaissance artists and critics like Leon Battista Alberti, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino known as Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci shouldered Aristotle’s idea of ideal imitation and Lee Krasner says, “Painting rises above the mere imitation of things with direct experience to nature.”The theory ut picture poesis—as is painting so is poetry— developed by renaissance art critics in an attempt to get for painting the heights of pride and honor that poetry had received as an art since ages.
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Red Fez journalIn India we don't have many publishers who are willing to publish a book of poetry traditionally, and in most cases the poets (except for a distinguished few) end up opting for vanity presses. Here is an exception; Ink and Line has been traditionally published, and it is an atypical collection of untitled poems that were written inspired by a few paintings and sketches. In this book we have Sonnet Mondal, a widely published and an award winning poet as one of the authors, while the other is a well-known poet and translator, Sukrita who has done the paintings.
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