Somnath Hore rendered a boy sitting and posing in front of the still life with fine, firm yet fluid strokes incised on to a metal sheet and transferred on the plain surface with the help of ink, articulating the contours of the figures.
- Identifier
- ngma-04530
- Material
- Etching Print
- Note
- Hailing from the small village of Barama, Chittagong (presently Bangladesh), Somnath Hore, born in 1921 started painting for the Communist party. He painted scenes of war on the documentation including the Bengal famine and Tebhaga Movement which were based on the agitation between the landlords and the tenants in 1948. During this uprising, Hore came in contact with Chittaprosad Bhattacharya, who himself was a printmaker and a strategist. Later his joining at the Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta in 1954 made him learn the printmaking techniques of lithography and intaglio. At then, Haren Das was the acting head of the graphics department which gave Hore the advantage of learning from him. Hore came up with an invention of the paper pulp printing along with various amalgamations of different media which gave him utter recognition. His series of abstract paper pulp 'Wounds' fetch him a number of accolades and appreciation. Later he moved to Santiniketan, worked for Kala Bhawan. His association with K.G. Subramanyam and Ramkinkar Baij at the Viswa Bharati University results in his inclination towards the sculptures. He contorted the sculptures in bronze. He also headed the Graphics Department of College of Art, Delhi along with the visiting experience as a faculty in M.S.U. Baroda.
- Pages
- 8.5 x 9.5 cm
- Published in
- India
- Type
