Vivek Saha is a very senior artist who spent his formative years in Khulna (now in Bangladesh), receiving his initial but very solid training in the craft of drawing from his able teachers. The specimens of his drawings (specially of female faces) displayed at the Birla Academy of Art and Culture made an aesthetic impact on viewers who are familiar with the romantic vision of physical reality, expounded by such masters of the past as Dilip Dasgupta and Kalikinkar Ghosh Dastidar. Vivek Saha, whose work today may seem a bit old-fashioned, representing as it does a mix of traditional academic style brush drawing and French Impressionism, may be said to have languished in the same conspiracy of non-recognition.

Basically self-taught, young painter Avijit Mukherjee was subsequently blessed with the attention of several well-known artists to his advantage. His mindscape mirrors a world of sadness and irony, but not totally bereft of hope or happiness. His perception of a mixed spectacle is deeply convincing without any effort on the part of the artist to project false optimism.

The grace and nobility of the age of old sculptures and stone carvings is viewed with admiration and love by a little boy of today (Wonder of Love, in acrylic and oil). Durga, in water colour, is another tribute to the mythical symbol of power and benign feminism.

Dance with Me is a finely rendered depiction of liveliness, while Is There Anybody (oil) is a simple but evocative work.