A painting by Bhabani Sankar Das on display at the Shraddhanjali art exhibition in Bhubaneswar. Picture by Sanjib Mukherjee

Bhubaneswar, June 23: Artists from across the country and outside have sent their best creation for Shraddhanjali — a visual art display paying tribute to renowned painter Byomakesh Mohanty.

The exhibition — housing over a 100 striking artworks by 80-odd artistes — was inaugurated on Thursday evening. The weeklong exhibition is on at the regional centre of Lalit Kala Akademi in the city.

Veteran artists such as Subrat Mallick, Manash Jena, D.N. Rao, Siba Panigrahi, Meenaketan Patnaik and Nigamananda have joined hands with several upcoming painters to create paintings with acrylic, water, oil, tempera and mixed media.

Among the young painters, Bhabani Sankar Das has presented a bald youngster in his work Nadaan Parindey, which looks like a photograph, but was created using acrylic colours. The birds chirping over his head signify the fickleness of the human mind.

Among the paintings sent by foreign artists are an image of roosters by Srimali Chandrasena from Sri Lanka, a landscape with a huge Buddha relic created by Mansoor from Afghanistan and couple of artworks sent by Nepal-based artist Hemraj Thapa and Milan KC. While Hemraj has drawn flags of myriad hues, Milan has sent a portrait of a running horse.

Students of a New Delhi-based multimedia school have created an array of paintings. Their paintings exude a unified texture where the students have extensively used bright hues. Ravi Singh and Vikram Singh represented their institute.

One of them said: “Our teacher Ranjan Mallick asked us to participate. It is an overwhelming experience for us to see the creations of renowned Odia painters and learn from them.” Among the clicks, Chinmaya Majhi’s Peace and Tranquillity capturing an idol of Buddha draws attention.

On Saturday, a documentary titled Chitradev based on the story of an artist will be screened. After Byomakesh Mohanty passed away in 2010, his admirers decided to organise an art exhibition to honour him. The exhibition and film screening has been organised by Artists’ Association of Odisha.

“Mohanty’s works can be seen in Louvre Museum in Paris. He taught us that paintings could be done in a day, which earlier used to take months to complete. He urged us to develop a signature style. By inviting entries from outside the state and the country, we want to show that he does not belong to Odisha only,” said the key organiser Meenaketan, known for his series of paintings based on apes.