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Nilotpal Sinha (b.1960) lives in Kolkata (Calcutta, India), being a Kolkata based artist he is engaged in painting and new media projects during last thirty years. He started his life with a painters' group to exhibit his works in the pavement exhibitions to project artworks for public viewing. Later, he joined major gallery shows, group shows, national shows, solo and few workshops. Also he is founder member of two art journals and artists' group Bengal Art Initiative (BAI).
By profession he started his living as a graphic designer from early life which is existed till today. At present worked as a graphic artist in VISWAYAN: www.viswayan.com, a Bengali cultural portal.
Nilotpal Sinha (b.1960) lives in Kolkata (Calcutta, India), being a Kolkata based artist he is engaged in painting and new media projects during last thirty years. He started his life with a painters' group to exhibit his works in the pavement exhibitions to project artworks for public viewing. Later, he joined major gallery shows, group shows, national shows, solo and few workshops. Also he is founder member of two art journals and artists' group Bengal Art Initiative (BAI).
By profession he started his living as a graphic designer from early life which is existed till today. At present worked as a graphic artist in VISWAYAN: www.viswayan.com, a Bengali cultural portal.
Painter: Self Employed Painter
January 1984 – December 2016 (32 years) Kolkata Area, India
Basically I
was a self employed painter before joining Bikshan and previous services. After
the finishing of the university diploma program I started studio work
independently joining self organized exhibitions in Kolkata area and Delhi. I
participated so many annual shows of AFA, BAAC, solo and duet shows, National show,
few art camps, workshops etc., at the same time did so many freelance jobs such
as doll painting to huge sized clay vase painting, murals, cover design, poster
design, logo, letter head design, theater set design, pandal (pavilion) decoration, stage crafts, spray-finish artworks,
even art teaching in week end art school etc on consignment basis from various
small or big companies. Later it converted to the application of digital
technology when I got training from Arena Multimedia. After the completion of
the computer course I conducted a class on Multimedia for two years in a home
based class room atmosphere for special caring to the students and many of them
undoubtedly worked in the market very successfully. Still the day I do the job
as freelancer which is parallel to the job of Bikshan.
Graphic Artist (Bikshan) January 2000
– Present (16 years 6 months)
Kolkata
Area, India.
http://www.viswayan.com (viswayan means globalization) is an official Bengali Cultural Portal of Bikshan which contains a biggest database on Bengali cultural product-info, such as Books, CD, DVD, Artifacts, Folk items, Crafts, Garments etc. and various information including a web magazine. Language: Bengali. I am engaged here (Present 16 years 6 months) as a Painter & Graphic Artist from the very beginning where I have to maintain all visual development support which is exclusively related to the manifestation and orientation of the portal Viswayan that was launched by the founders of the company, Bikshan in the year 2000. Since this is a question of separate and different cultural identity and language barrier that I have to thematically and conceptually become alert about the visual development for creating webpage elements such as header, buttons, special images, logo, motifs, banner, illustration or drawing etc., otherwise it may disqualify to fall into an identity crisis at any moment. So I have to do everything after a thorough observation and thinking obviously consulting to the content writers. Later the graphic image processing is going on using soft-wares that are industrially supported; sometimes hand drawn experiences are also needed to fulfill the target parallels. I did online jobs from foreign companies under the co-ordination of Bikshan that were image processing jobs (near about 25 thousand) and illustrations on insects (near about 100 drawings) during two years nearly. The same has to be introduced in print media job which is another time taking task that are processing layouts or artworks according to industry skill and rule and finally I have to take a full responsibility up to the production of the end product. Here also the industry supported graphic soft-wares are used generally. Beside these, I have to make animated intros or web animations or interactive multimedia program or authoring for the necessity of the company, basically that were required in launching period much more. In relation to this I do the same in the market as freelance jobs that are displayed in a website http://blogarudesign.blogspot.in as specimens including major specimens of http://www.viswayan.com . At present I have started to develop websites creating a web team to deliver the product to my target audiences who are art and art related people such as http://www.globalthek.com, http://www.adlandindia.com and I am owner of few personal blogs (linked to 17 other Social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Path, etc.) which one is nilotpalsinhadotme: http://nilotpalsinhadotme.wordpress.com and others are BanglaBlog: http://neelseen.wordpress.com and http://neelseen.blogspot.in , BanglaBlogaru: http://banglablogaru.wordpress.com , myWorks: http://blogarudesign.blogspot.in etc.
http://www.viswayan.com (viswayan means globalization) is an official Bengali Cultural Portal of Bikshan which contains a biggest database on Bengali cultural product-info, such as Books, CD, DVD, Artifacts, Folk items, Crafts, Garments etc. and various information including a web magazine. Language: Bengali. I am engaged here (Present 16 years 6 months) as a Painter & Graphic Artist from the very beginning where I have to maintain all visual development support which is exclusively related to the manifestation and orientation of the portal Viswayan that was launched by the founders of the company, Bikshan in the year 2000. Since this is a question of separate and different cultural identity and language barrier that I have to thematically and conceptually become alert about the visual development for creating webpage elements such as header, buttons, special images, logo, motifs, banner, illustration or drawing etc., otherwise it may disqualify to fall into an identity crisis at any moment. So I have to do everything after a thorough observation and thinking obviously consulting to the content writers. Later the graphic image processing is going on using soft-wares that are industrially supported; sometimes hand drawn experiences are also needed to fulfill the target parallels. I did online jobs from foreign companies under the co-ordination of Bikshan that were image processing jobs (near about 25 thousand) and illustrations on insects (near about 100 drawings) during two years nearly. The same has to be introduced in print media job which is another time taking task that are processing layouts or artworks according to industry skill and rule and finally I have to take a full responsibility up to the production of the end product. Here also the industry supported graphic soft-wares are used generally. Beside these, I have to make animated intros or web animations or interactive multimedia program or authoring for the necessity of the company, basically that were required in launching period much more. In relation to this I do the same in the market as freelance jobs that are displayed in a website http://blogarudesign.blogspot.in as specimens including major specimens of http://www.viswayan.com . At present I have started to develop websites creating a web team to deliver the product to my target audiences who are art and art related people such as http://www.globalthek.com, http://www.adlandindia.com and I am owner of few personal blogs (linked to 17 other Social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Path, etc.) which one is nilotpalsinhadotme: http://nilotpalsinhadotme.wordpress.com and others are BanglaBlog: http://neelseen.wordpress.com and http://neelseen.blogspot.in , BanglaBlogaru: http://banglablogaru.wordpress.com , myWorks: http://blogarudesign.blogspot.in etc.
Experience:
Artist at Bikshan: Prev. Experiences,
mentioned.
Designer Wendy Inspection January 1993 – December 1998 (6 years) Kolkata Area, India
Designer Wendy Inspection January 1993 – December 1998 (6 years) Kolkata Area, India
Worked as
freelancer in an artists' team in the design section of Wendy Inspection, a
liaison office of MTC, an export-import company of USA to develop the surface
design and managing the product design. Since it was a team work so I had no particular
job to perform but the artwork processing was mandatory for me. This company coordinated
various types of exclusive fashion items for exporting that were mainly leather
bags and baggage, garment items or leather shoes etc. Now this liaison office
is liquidated.
Assistant Artist 1987 – Artist at
BITM, Kolkata Area, India
Worked as an
assistant artist in the studio of BITM (Birla Technological and Industrial
Museum) for two projects on Science Exhibition during a couple of months under
the guidance of art director, chief artist, exhibition officer, and science
museum officer where I had to work on preparing exhibition panel boards,
displaying exhibits, photographs and assisting officers to display whole
exhibition up to the opening period. It was to me a huge experiences how to
prepare and how to exhibit products in an open air or big hall room that I used
in later period when I started to do such a kind of work independently. Name of
two Exhibitions: Frontiers of Astronomy and Acharya P.C. Ray. Acharya means a
Scholar or Pundit, Guru.
Layout Artist December 1984–November
1986 (2 years), Kolkata Area, India
Worked as
Layout artist in the art section of Sanibarer Chithi (Saturday-Letter), a Bengali 4-issue-monthly magazine) where I had
to make up pages (before the age of complete pre press setup arrived) manually
by galley pasting, placing illustrations, hand drawn images etc. even last minute
spell checking of final galley correction before going to create bi-color or
four color or single color line plus half tone negative-positive in litho-film
processing setup that was only the prepress setup at that time. Today this
method has been converted and processed by image setter in prepress unit.
Languages: English, Bengali, Hindi.
Professional working proficiency:
English, Bengali, Hindi.
Skills &
Expertise Most endorsed for: • Fine Art • Contemporary Art • Visual Arts •
Mixed Media • Painting • Art Education • Oil Painting • Tempera • Figurative
Art • Printmaking.
Nilotpal also knows
about... • Art • Public Art • Galleries • Books • Curating • Acrylic Painting •
Adobe Illustrator • Adobe Photoshop • Adobe Director • Frontpage • Adobe Premere
• Sound Forge • Lingo • Wordpress Interests... • New technologies • Digital
photography • Music • Cultural activities • Organizing artists' group • Reading
and Writing • Political and cultural debates and participating Adda (Joint).
Education:
Class of 1983 ·
Kolkata, India
- Arena Multimedia, Kolkata, India. Division
of APTECH, Kolkata, India.
One Year Diploma in Interactive Multimedia, A+ , 1997 – 1998
Integration of Text, Photo, Graphics, Digital images. Hand drawn images, Animation-2D or 3D, Audio and Video with Lingo programming (CD-Rom authoring) for Viswayan's different projects. Also to develop few self-projects that are projected as a new media being made parallel to the painting or video installation, basically an effort to implement the interactivity between creator and viewer or reader.
Activities and Societies:
Actively involved in the development of Multimedia project for my
company including few self project.
Actively involved in the development of Multimedia project for my
company including few self project.
- Victoria Memorial, Kolkata, India.
Certificate in Art Appreciation (one
month)
Attending seminars on art of India Modern period., 1989 – 1989.
The Seminar was conducted by the Victoria Memorial authority during a long period that was near about one month program, in this program major lecturers delivered lectures with a documentation on the context of Mughal miniature art, Company school art, Bengal school to Shantiniketan period (Viswabharati) and late 50s-60s' contemporary art. Sufficient images of artworks and paintings were viewed with a slide show that helped the students for preparing knowledge on the contextual topics.
Activities and Societies:
Attending seminars on art of India, lectures delivered by different authenticated educationists, specialists and art historians.
Attending seminars on art of India Modern period., 1989 – 1989.
The Seminar was conducted by the Victoria Memorial authority during a long period that was near about one month program, in this program major lecturers delivered lectures with a documentation on the context of Mughal miniature art, Company school art, Bengal school to Shantiniketan period (Viswabharati) and late 50s-60s' contemporary art. Sufficient images of artworks and paintings were viewed with a slide show that helped the students for preparing knowledge on the contextual topics.
Activities and Societies:
Attending seminars on art of India, lectures delivered by different authenticated educationists, specialists and art historians.
- University of Calcutta
Teachers' Training Certificate (Art
Appreciation)-6 Months
Art History, Criticism and Conservation, Architecture, Aesthetics (East and West) and Practical, 2nd Class, 1988 – 1988.
After the completion of 5-year Diploma program and Art appreciation course it needed to be involved in search of a new and contemporary art language and participation into the debate team. Started life with a painters' group to exhibit artworks in the pavement exhibitions to project artworks for public viewing and later joined major gallery shows, solo and group shows, national shows and attended few camps, workshops. Also founder member of two art journals and artists' group and involved in different artists' group.
Activities and Societies:
Started to exhibit artworks from pavement exhibitions to gallery shows, solo and group shows, national shows and attended few workshops including foundation of two art journals and artists' group.
Art History, Criticism and Conservation, Architecture, Aesthetics (East and West) and Practical, 2nd Class, 1988 – 1988.
After the completion of 5-year Diploma program and Art appreciation course it needed to be involved in search of a new and contemporary art language and participation into the debate team. Started life with a painters' group to exhibit artworks in the pavement exhibitions to project artworks for public viewing and later joined major gallery shows, solo and group shows, national shows and attended few camps, workshops. Also founder member of two art journals and artists' group and involved in different artists' group.
Activities and Societies:
Started to exhibit artworks from pavement exhibitions to gallery shows, solo and group shows, national shows and attended few workshops including foundation of two art journals and artists' group.
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