Reviews
“Her ability to emphathise fully with different emotions and feelings has brought out an output most commendable.” - Sawy magazine on ‘Faces’.
“It is no exaggeration to say that Basu is one of the most promising painters who have made their debut in Bombay in recent times… Her works reveal a confident style and a dramatic deployment of human figures”. - Midday , reviewing Samita Basu’s exhibition at Taj Art Gallery.
“Basu explores the inner recesses of a woman’s mind through her paintings…to transfer a mental state into visual terms, focussing on a variety of female moods… What is most striking about Samita Basu’s paintings is their pictorial vividness, their intensity and truthfulness, which makes her work appealing.” - Outlook magazine reviewing her exhibition at Jehangir Art Gallery.
“Samita’s pictures have this searing power to scorch our eyes and reach deep into the pysche. There is a realistic solidity about every face but there is also an admireable subtlety of delineation, be it of a beard, a forehead, a nose or a pair of eyes.” - Art critic Dnyaneshwar Nadkarni quoted in The Afternoon Despatch & Courier’s review of ‘Faces’.
“(Samita Basu) is an untrained artist – a category for which I, for one, have a lot of respect, as I find them bereft of any shackles, free to create, improvise and experiment… The theme of the emancipation of our women has taken a back seat, at least for the nonce, in the world of art. It is to the credit of Samita Basu to have taken up cudgels on their behalf (through her recent work).”
- R.T.Shahani writing for The Indian Express
“At her last exhibition in Bombay at the Taj Art Gallery (1995), Samita displayed the full flowering of her craftsmanship. She painted a variety of human figures, among them the most noticeable being ‘Soulless’ … Samita proved her command of draughtmanship in all the oils on view. And now, in ‘Faces’ (Son-et-Lumiere Gallery), she goes a step further and projects, with pastels and conte, more gripping human ‘heads’… unforgettable faces” - Art critic Dnyaneshwar Nadkarni charting the progress of Samita Basu in The Pioneer.