Arup Das, a Delhi based figurative painter, is a noted muralist. The 'text' of his paintings has always been informed by a keen awareness or man's socio-historical being. He has enviable skill in handling both aqueous medium and oil, and he is particularly happy and inventive when working in mixed media. His human figuration, expressively stylized, has something monumental about it even when painted in small format. Although from the illusionist spatial recession, the pictorial space in his paintings interprets the figures in terms of fine overlaps or colors in a wide range of tones. Arup Das often suggests an advent of the Messiah and hope of redemption.

Born in West Bengal in 1927, Arup Das graduated from the Government College of ...