Artist: Paritosh Sen
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 15.75 x 20 in (40 x 50.5 cm)
Year: 2005
In Still Life with Fish and Fruits, Paritosh Sen presents a vibrant reinterpretation of the traditional still-life genre through a modernist and playful visual language. The composition features a stylized arrangement of fish, fruits, and a pineapple placed on a patterned surface, creating a lively balance between everyday objects and expressive artistic form. Sen transforms these ordinary elements into dynamic shapes, emphasizing bold outlines and flattened perspectives rather than naturalistic representation.
The artist employs a rich and saturated color palette dominated by deep blues, warm reds, and bright yellows. These contrasting colors create visual energy and rhythm across the canvas, while the geometric arrangement of forms adds structure to the composition. The fish, painted in cool blue tones, become the focal point, their simplified bodies and exaggerated features lending them a whimsical, almost animated quality.
Sen’s treatment of space is intentionally unconventional. Instead of realistic depth, he layers objects across patterned planes, allowing colors and shapes to interact freely. This approach reflects influences of modernist experimentation and folk aesthetics, both of which often appear in his work.
Through this playful yet carefully composed still life, Sen celebrates everyday imagery while demonstrating how color, line, and form can transform ordinary objects into a lively visual narrative full of movement and character.
