Kolkata: Veteran painter and Social Activist Wasim Kapoor, known for his oil Jesus Christ and Mother Teresa, died in Kolkata on Monday.
Kapoor is 71 and gives up on a heart attack on his residence.
Hena Kapoor’s nephew said Toi that she died suddenly on Monday morning after suffering a heart attack.
“His last work was oil painting from Kaifi Azmi.
It was a assigned job.
My uncle was painted even on the night before he died,” he said, adding how he grew watching his job uncle at Jesus Christ and Mother Teresa canvas for hours.
“He turned 71 on January 3 this year.” The admirer also remembers his ‘burqa’, ‘victim’ and the ‘prostitute’ series highlighting social issues.
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Padma Shri’s son of Lucknawi’s recipient, Kapoor inherited a creative streak from his father who was a famous Urdu poet.
Even though he was born in Lucknow, Kolkata was his house.
A fall when he was only six months old limited to Kapoor for a hospital bed for 12 years.
Years in the hospital, where he only books and crayons for the company.
His father was arranged for him to learn to paint as he was hospitalized.
Friends & relatives at the Wasim Kapoor Center Kolkata Home.as Children, Kapoor developed interest in Jesus’ painting when he would read the Bible story.
When he starts painting, a barbed wire that usually runs on the face of Jesus on loan a non-conventional touch for his works.
Kapoor, the Muslim with faith, is a liberal in care.
When asked about his interest in Jesus’ painting, he would always point that his stroke was not intended to highlight religious perspectives.
Jesus, for him, is a manifestation of pain.
“His interest in Jesus’ painting and Mother Teresa spoke a lot about the secular mindset.
The signature style arouses pain and empathy.
I also like drawing tonal about Jesus with red crayons on paper.
There is no thick color but just a soft tone enough to identify it as his work even if his signature is not present, “said Veteran Sculptor Bimal Kundu, who knew him for 30 years now.
When asked about why he was so attracted to Mother’s painting, Kapoor would say: “Every time I see it, he leaves a piece of his kindness in me, something that exceeds all the borders known to virtue and combined into noble.” Artist Sanatan Dinda was inspired by “surrealism” in Kapoor’s work.
“Even though he chose for figurative works, one could not miss on several layers he explored through his stroke.
Sometimes, I see them emit a deep taste of pain and suffering.
I suspect that it can be a result of having his own personal trauma struggling physical challenges in his life.
This is especially true for all Jesus’ works, “said Dinda.
He really liked Kapoor’s early works.
“I remember clearly a half-naked woman she had painted a long back.
Even though women seemed to hail from a rich background, his face reflected the trauma of the people under the people, “he added.
Both Dinda and Kundu’s point that Kapoor is a very good human being.
“I’m going to miss him at all our exhibition.
CAA-NRC when protests occur in Park Circus, Wasim-da is the one to ask to go there.
There is a canvas on which we all painted to express solidarity.
Fearless in his view, Wasim-da forever ready to help, “said Kundu.
Kapoor describe as a “humanist”, social activist Saira Shah Halim said he was always available to support every good cause.
“He’s over religious dogma and can criticize the hard line on both sides of the fence.
That is how we are connected, “he said.
his absence will be missed even in the social circuit Kolkata.
“Wasimji very close to our family for decades and was a regular at all of our party.
Seeing him walk in wearing trademark black suit etched in my memory.
Soft spoken and always smiling, he was a perfect gentleman,” said the industrialist Sanjay Budhia.