{"id":405,"date":"2014-11-26T19:28:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T13:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/?p=405"},"modified":"2015-06-14T13:43:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T08:13:03","slug":"krishnagar-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Krishnagar clay"},"content":{"rendered":"

From practically the first moment since I stepped off the plane in Kolkata in late August, people have been telling me to visit the town of Krishnagar. \u00a0Last week I had the opportunity to visit there with\u00a0a group of artist friends. \u00a0Krishnagar is famous for the production of highly realistic sculpture, from larger than life to extremely minature sculptures.<\/span><\/p>\n

We visited with local sculptor Subir Pal, who has both a shop\u00a0on the main road for\u00a0his finished works, as well as a workshop that is just a short walk down a\u00a0small alleyway near the shop.<\/p>\n

\"DSC_0095\"Subir Pal’s showroom with cabinet of narrative clay works<\/span><\/p>\n

\"DSC_0038\"His workshop<\/span><\/p>\n

\"DSC_0045\"<\/a>Workers and apprentices busy with their various tasks.<\/p>\n

\"DSC_0046\"Subir Pal with work in process<\/p>\n

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Subir Pal also works in fiberglass (as well as\u00a0stone, plaster, bronze, and cement). \u00a0Check out this cow – sculptural trompe l’oeil<\/em>\u00a0– in the photo above. \u00a0Photo below, another cow sculpture is stored in the workshop loft.<\/p>\n

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In the alleyway between workshop and showroom, we encountered the raw, unprepared Krishnagar clay, loaded up onto a bicycle \u00a0cart<\/p>\n

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According to Subir Pal, this clay is so dense that it is as hard as stone without being fired! \u00a0I remain skeptical, but hopeful, since he\u00a0generously gave me a big chunk of the clay\u00a0to try it out!<\/p>\n

\"DSC_0079\"These minatures are really amazing!<\/p>\n

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Below, Subir Pal’s “artist’s reserve” of minature sculptures. \u00a0Wow.<\/p>\n

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From practically the first moment since I stepped off the plane in Kolkata in late August, people have been telling me to visit the town of Krishnagar. \u00a0Last week I had the opportunity to visit there with\u00a0a group of artist friends. \u00a0Krishnagar is famous for the production of highly realistic sculpture, from larger than life … Continue reading Krishnagar clay<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,14,6,26,55,21,17,56,100,13],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clay","tag-httpwww-cynthiasiegel-com","tag-fulbright-scholar-program","tag-fulbright-nehru","tag-krishnagar","tag-kumartuli","tag-sculpture","tag-subir-pal","tag-unfired-clay-sculpture","tag-west-bengal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}