Shilpi Anil Kumar Dutta, himself a landscape and portrait painter, writer, printer and publisher, devoted the later part of his life for the cause of art education. He had the vision and dream of a platform to serve the society through art activities and founded Academy of Creative Art.
| Anil Kumar Dutta (15 April 1933 – 1 Sep 2005) | |
| born to Jnan Ranjan Dutta & Parulbala Devi in Kolkata | |
| passed Matriculation examination from the Calcutta University – 1951 | |
| stood first class first in the Diploma examination in Fine Arts ( 5 years) from the Indian School of Art – 1955 | |
| disciple of Atul Bose, Rashbehari Dutta, Gobardhan Ash, Kalikinkar Ghosh Dastidar, Rathin Maitra | |
| joined the Regional Institute of Printing Technology (5 years) but discontinued after studying for 3 years -1959 | |
| ran a designing and publicity house with printing press under the name and style of D. G. Press & Publicity Syndicate | |
| ran Mookta Patra Publication and published more than 45 titles -mainly novels and collection of poems ; made cover designs of the same. | |
| Field of Visual Arts : | |
| was closely associated with the Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta -1970 to 1991 | |
| took part in restoring nearly 200 paintings and such Art treasures kept in the museum | |
| had active role in the matter of opening of the ‘Institute of Visual Art’ started by Academy of Fine Arts and running the same as the founder Principal – 1989 | |
| was executive committee member of Academy of Fine Arts -1989 to 1990 and took sincere steps for a facelift of the institute | |
| participated as an expert in compilation of the curriculum of Diploma in Commercial Art for Womens Polytechnic, Jamshedpur, Bihar on an invitation from Technical Teachers Training Institute, Eastern Region, Calcutta – 1990 | |
| started a new Art institute named Academy of Creative Art, a registered society and a registered Trust -1991. | |
| Individual Art Activity | |
| had solo exhibition of mountain landscape paintings twice at the Academy of Fine Arts and at the Calcutta Information Centre-1982 & 1983 | |
| Swakalbela (Of My Time) a unique collection of portraits of 62 outstanding personalities – eminent in their respective field of Art, Science & Culture. This was done at personal expences by visiting each dignitary and seeking their cooperation of 2 to 3 patient sittings of 2 hours each. The urge behind such an effort was to build up a gallery consisting of 100 eminent contemporary figures | |
| the said portraits were exhibited at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1984 & 1985 | |
| Social-cum-Educational Activity | |
| all activities, as Secretary and Principal of Academy of Creative Art are ideally directed towards social service through art education and | |
| opening up of opportunities of employment for the budding artists | |
| Literary Activity | |
| started a Bengali monthly Silpo-O-Sahitya (formerly Mookta Patra) -1977 with the idea to bridge art and literature | |
| the title has more than 20 special numbers | |
| organised Silpo-O-Sahitya Annual Prize Distribution to the best Poet, Short Story Writer, Cover Designer, Essayist and Editor of the year selected out of the Puja Number of the various Bengali Little Magazines – 1985 to 1990 | |
| is the author of the following books | |
| 1 | Alor Sandhane (poem) |
| 2 | Shad Noy Gandha Noy (poem) |
| 3 | Apabrita (novelette on art) |
| 4 | Parama (short story) |
| Unpublished | |
| 5 | Aar Ek Ekalabya – biography of his mentor Kalikinkar Ghosh Dastidar |
| 6 | Swakalbela – brief biographies with the life portraits |
| 7. Lekhay Rekhay Rajputturer Gappo – a compilation of drawings of Kalikinkar Ghosh Dastidar with narrative poem by Saritsekhar Majumdar for the children. | |
