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"Chiru's paintings bear eloquent witness to the body's torments:the fragmentary forms that stand in for limbs in his canvasses are often shown in torsion; their surfaces fold over one another, or are flayed open, or sometimes, remain knotted in suffocating embrace. .... These conditions, reflecting deep inner disquietudes as they do, form the distinctive emotional terrain that Chiru has charted formore than a decade now....
His is a compassionate vision of human kind as a race held in thrall by its insticts, its appetites, its raw passions; and yet the same forces can, if canalised, give it the protection of self assurance and dignity."
From Riding the crest of the crisis....
chiru: recent paintings
Ranjit Hoskote 1998
"No other artist but Chiru could better express the anxiety of human existence. His work could be compared to Munch in its intense, evocative treatment of psychological and emotional themes and also, to the convulsive reality of anothet major modern symbol - Pablo Picasso's 'Guernica'. However Chiru Chakravarty, gives something more to us in his paintings: a spiritual awareness of a life after death, his colors reflecting hope for a new and better life.".
- Simonne Jameson Ph.D.(M.A.)
Art Critic (ex Figaro litteraire, Corriere di Roma)
"What Chiru draws is definitely based on the human body. The pain and anguish that we see in the body of Christ on a Wrack or on the cross, are evident in his drawings but in an abstract manner. One may say, that Chiru, sums up in his tightly knit configurations the entire spirit of human suffering".
- Dnyaneshwar Nadkarni
"Chiru's paintings are entirely intellectual and thought out to the last".
- Free Press Bulletin
"Colours dominate Chiru's paintings. The inter-locking forms in each painting are inseparable from this existence of colour and its dramatic exploitations. Chiru's exhibitions have amply proved his versatility".
- The Times Of India
"A thinker with the brush, Chiru perceives these amalgamations shapes that project dynamic surface tensions as pictorial elements that convey conflict, friction and repose".
- The Statesman
"Chiru has painted, not with tint and brush,
But with a total joy of inner hush,
Spreading across his canvases that speak
The tongue of cave and sea and mountain peak;
His massive sense of contours, freedom bound,
Packed with interior resonance, resound
With giant certainity which never swerves
From vision's logic gripped in lines and curves".
- Harindranath Chattopadhyaya
"chiru is an established muralist and painter with a mastery over both the media. His drawings defy any interpretaion whatsoever. They are fantasies - serious, forcing one to contemplate on them. Not only is their execution par excellence but they are also marked by their painterly quality".
- S I Clerk
"Chiru has a very warped and attractive sense of symmetry and the realness in his sculptures make them stand out".
- Rishad Patel, Mid-Day
The art of this master of the modern architecture of living, one can feel the overwhelming tensions of the artist's inner emotions; translated in an unchaining, sometimes dramatic, solitary and pensive; sometime pathetical and enlightened by the twinkling of hope. Because the great, the obsessive theme of this sensitive still reflexive artist is life- considered in its implacable dynamics. This is Chiru's philosphic, aesthetic and moral credo. This is also the fundamental metaphor of his pictorial poetics and specially his message to eternity.
- Corrneliu Antim
     
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