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Bandana
Sengupta is an Artist of eminence with the ability of introducing a "new
dimension" in the realm of creative art and developing a school of artists
with organised background thoughts. She had her academic degrees in arts and
Fine Arts from Calcutta University and Viswa Bharati University, Santiniketan.
Bandana, during her student life at Kalabhawan, had many a fortunate scope to
have interaction with Acharyya Nandalal Bose and the eminent artist Professor
Ramkinkar Baiz and other erudite scholars in fine Arts.
The
exhibition of her pioneering works on Hand Printed Sarees at the Art Gallery of
Academy of Fine Arts in 1968 created a wave of appreciation and stimulation among
large cross - selection of art lovers, artists and journalists.
Amrita
Bazar Patrika in a review in 1968 commented "but a new dimension has been
provided this year to the diversity of already diversified pattern of Sarees by demure
Artist Bandana Sengupta now being held at the Academy of Fine
Arts............... Apart from the artistic calibre Bandana proved herself a deft
teacher of Art"
Eve's
weekly added "Bandana a talented artist from Santiniketan sufficiently
proficient to teach art to others".
The
Statesman in 1980 commented "Unlike a painted Camera hung up in a room or a
gallery a Saree on its wearer is a 'shifting' statement of colour and
design.............. the exhibition features products of art research center which Bandana Sengupta directs, involves manual painting of machine - woven and
handloom fabrics, a method she has been propagating more than a decade".
This
apart, many of the news papers and magazine of regional language including 'Desh'
spoke high of her creativeness". Calcutta based magazine 'Business'
appreciated her multifrontal activities for promotion of 'art', women
entrepreneurship and creative approaches in their review note in 1989.
Bandana
Sengupta maintains a close relation with the academic and aesthetic values of
Art as an Artist, Art Director and a "deft teacher" of art.
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