Assam's Renowned Artist Neel Pawan Baruah Tests COVID Positive

Guwahati: Neel Pawan Baruah, Assam's renowned artist, has tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday night. The 85-year-old painter and illustrator has been admitted to the GMCH's Super Specialty Hospital on Saturday morning.

The authorities of GMCH said that his health condition is stable. The oxygen saturation levels are stable as well.

A resident of Guwahati, Baruah is the founder artist of the Assam Fine Arts & Craft Society.

In 2012, around 87 paintings by the Neel Pawan Baruah are on display at the State Art Gallery as part of an exhibition titled 'Neel Pawan Baruah- an exhibition of paintings,' an initiative undertaken by the Nabakanta Baruah Foundation. The 87 paintings on display are a part of his collection that was composed in the last 10 to 15 years. Baruah, who is considered a genius for using unusual mediums to portray his paintings, said that he didn't want to acknowledge his paintings as abstract but what he wanted to say was that his paintings are abstract carrying a form through which an image or images are created and that exhibits an idea.

It is to be mentioned that Baruah has used Charminar cigarette packs as a medium and made the bright amber coloured cover glistens more with the forms and caricatures of figures etched in it. Not only cigarette packs, he has even rendered dull cardboard matchboxes interesting through his artistic dexterity.

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