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A participatory practice with fellow artists like Chittaprosad led to his intellectual growth. Hore\u2019s early sketches were published in\u00a0Janayuddha\u00a0and\u00a0People\u2019s War, publications of the Communist Party; like many young men in the 1940s, Hore too joined the political party though he drifted away from it later.\nHore chose a distinctly formal, Western style of artmaking, distinguished by its strong linear quality, and guided by humanist concerns that foregrounded the indigent grappling with issues of survival. Distilled into iconic heads and emaciated bodies, his act of recovering the erased re-inscribed them into public memory. The anguished human form was reflected in Hore\u2019s figuration through bold, minimal strokes enhanced by rough surfaces, slits and holes.\nOver a thirty-year teaching career, Hore set up the printmaking department of Delhi Polytechnic in 1958. He joined Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan, as head of its printmaking department in 1968, where his own practice received a boost under the guidance of Ramkinkar Baij and Benodebehari Mukherjee.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/o/somnath_hore_cover.jpg","intro":"Somnath Hore was the quintessential Bengal artist deeply affected by the cataclysms that changed its history, such as the 1943 famine\u2014a man-made crisis resulting in the death of two-three million people\u2014and the 1946 Tebhaga peasant uprising.","name":"Somnath Hore","profile":"https://dagworld.com/somnathhore.html","year":"1921 - 2006"},{"CurrentProductId":"2231","LastArtProId":"2858","artworks":[{"medium":"Charcoal, conte and glass marker on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/sinhas038.jpg","title":"Fakirsahab","year":1941},{"medium":"Charcoal and dry pastel on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/sinhas043.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1940},{"medium":"Conte on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/sinhas047.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1939},{"medium":"Charcoal on paper laid on mount board","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/sinhas116.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":null},{"medium":"Watercolour and ink on paper pasted on cardboard","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/sinhas217.jpg","title":"A Refugee Camp in South Calcutta","year":1946},{"medium":"Lithograph on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/sinhas400ny.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1944},{"medium":"Conte on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/i/sinhas401ny.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1963}],"bio":"Born on 15 August 1894 in the north Calcutta neighbourhood of Nather Bagan, Sinha showed an aptitude for the arts since childhood. He enrolled at the Government School of Art at the age of eighteen as a pupil of Abanindranath Tagore. However, he had to give up studying within three years due to his father\u2019s death. He joined an insurance company as an agent to earn his livelihood but continued to study painting privately.\nSoon, he was illustrating books, magazines and journals, such as the Bengali periodical Basumati. Though he had been a student of Abanindranath Tagore, Sinha gradually found his own style in realism, and along with other students of Tagore such as Jamini Roy and Atul Bose, drifted away from the Bengal School. He also interned with Hemendranath Mazumdar at Jubilee Art Academy.\nIn later years, Sinha went on to teach at his alma mater. He also taught at Indian College of Arts and Draughtsmanship, where he was eventually elevated to the post of principal. Sinha was an active member of the Calcutta cultural collective called Rasachakra and served as joint secretary at New Delhi\u2019s Lalit Kala Akademi. He was awarded the ivory Ashok Stambha in 1962 by the Government of India for his contribution to Indian art.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/a/satish_sinha.jpg","intro":"Painting in the realistic style, Satish Sinha\u2019s forte was the female figure, followed by landscapes. His subjects remained people in everyday settings, creating endearing portraits of life quotidienne.","name":"Satish Sinha","profile":"https://dagworld.com/satishsinha.html","year":"1894 - 1965"},{"CurrentProductId":"2187","LastArtProId":"2957","artworks":[{"medium":"Oil, enamel and ink on canvas","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/r/o/roerichn003ny.jpg","title":"Trees By a Lake","year":null},{"medium":"Tempera and graphite on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/r/o/roerichn004ny.jpg","title":"Blue Cliff","year":null}],"bio":"As a painter, Roerich is best remembered for his ethereal paintings of the mist-laden and wispy Himalayas, done mostly in tempera or oil. These paintings remain some of the best works celebrating the mighty mountain range.\nRoerich was born on 9 October 1874 in St. Petersburg in a well-to-do family that often entertained the city\u2019s cultural set. He studied law and drawing simultaneously and soon came in contact with Sergei Diaghilev, founder of the renowned Ballets Russes. Designing sets and costumes for the group\u2019s productions, he toured Europe with Diaghilev, and came in touch with Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, and Wassily Kandinsky, who were also designing sets for Diaghilev.\nRoerich immigrated to the United States in 1920 with wife Helena, where he founded the Agni Yoga Society the same year in New York, and an art institute the next year which would metamorphose into the Nicholas Roerich Museum in 1949. Around this time, Roerich started on a quest to explore the Eastern philosophies that had begun to impact his work.\nThis quest brought him to India in 1923 and he extensively explored the Himalayas from Sikkim in the east to Ladakh and Kashmir in the north-west. He also travelled through large parts of Central Asia and South Asia as part of his Asian expeditions, and was instrumental in creating the Roerich Peace Pact for the safekeeping of cultural and artistic legacies.\nRoerich established the Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute in 1928 in Kullu valley and passed away on 13 December 1947 in Naggar, Himachal Pradesh. His home there is now a museum.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/n/i/nicholas_roerich_cover.jpg","intro":"One of the nine National Treasure artists of India, Russia-born Nicholas Roerich was not just a painter but a stage designer for ballets, an explorer, writer, and philosopher.","name":"Nicholas Roerich","profile":"https://dagworld.com/nicholasroerich.html","year":"1874 - 1947"},{"CurrentProductId":"2175","LastArtProId":"3110","artworks":[{"medium":"Ceramic","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/u/mukherjeemrinalini03.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":null},{"medium":"Ceramic","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/u/mukherjeemrinalini07.jpg","title":"Florescence 2","year":1996}],"bio":"She studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University, Baroda, under artist-teacher K. G. Subramanyan, receiving a post diploma in mural design.\nMukherjee worked with a range of mediums but it was the Fine Arts Fair at Baroda in the early 1970s that influenced her to explore woven sculptures and tapestry. Her painstakingly knotted hemp sculptures, and clay figures, with their twists, curves and overlapping layers, conveyed a feminist message through the body represented in fragments, but also of a lush, fecund world. She referred to her figure as an anthropomorphic deity, but the nature of her reverence was different as she stepped away from the norms of conventional iconography. In 2000, she started working in bronze, bringing the same organically-grown forms to this sturdy material as she did with hemp. She also used ceramic effectively in her work.\nMukherjee received the 1971 British Council scholarship in sculptural art and worked at West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham, England. Her works are in the permanent collections of National Gallery of Modern Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, both in New Delhi, and other reputed institutions.\nShe passed away in New Delhi on 2 February 2015 on the eve of her retrospective at National Gallery of Modern Art; this was followed by Met Breuer in New York honouring her with a retrospective in 2019.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/m/r/mrinalini_mukherjee_cover.jpg","intro":"Born in Bombay to eminent artist-couple Benode Behari and Leela Mukherjee, Mrinalini Mukherjee gave a new dimension to modern sculpture in India with works made in natural materials such as woven vegetable fibres of hemp.","name":"Mrinalini Mukherjee","profile":"https://dagworld.com/mrinalinimukherjee.html","year":"1949 - 2015"},{"CurrentProductId":"2182","LastArtProId":"4084","artworks":[{"medium":"Watercolour on card","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/b/o/bosen082.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1948},{"medium":"Watercolour on card","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/b/o/bosen121.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1948},{"medium":"Ink on rice paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/b/o/bosen246.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":null},{"medium":"Kokka woodblock print on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/b/o/bosen332.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":null},{"medium":"Ink on card","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/b/o/bosen371_1_.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":null},{"medium":"Ink and collage on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/b/o/bosen437.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1954},{"medium":"Ink and graphite on postcard","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/b/o/bosen444.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1953},{"medium":"Watercolour and ink on card","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/b/o/bosen486.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1952},{"medium":"Kokka woodblock print highlighted with gold pigment on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/b/o/bosen506.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1960}],"bio":"Hailing from Munger in Bihar, he was fifteen when he came to Calcutta to continue his education, where his passion for art ultimately took him to the Government College of Arts and Crafts, to be groomed by Abanindranath Tagore from 1905-10.Close association with the Tagores awakened his idealism for a nationalistic consciousness and commitment toward classical and folk art, along with its underlying spirituality and symbolism.\nWhen, in 1919, Bose was invited by Rabindranath Tagore to take charge of the newly-founded Kala Bhavana at his Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan, he focussed mostly on the awakening of the creative potential of each student while laying emphasis on the unity of art and nature. In his own work, Bose experimented with the flat treatment of Mughal and Rajasthani traditions and played with the Sino-Japanese style and technique in his washes.\nThe 1930s saw a transition in his works from figuration to landscape. Engaging with various styles, Bose came up with a series of temperas marked by the impact of post-impressionist and expressionist renderings. His \u2018posters\u2019 for meetings of the Indian National Congress, and his illustrations, along with a group of other artists, of the Constitution of India, acknowledged his contribution to the creation of a new art for India.\nAwarded the Padma Bhushan in 1954, his works were declared a National Art Treasure under the Antiquities and Art Treasure Act 1972. Bose passed away in Calcutta on 16 April 1966.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/n/a/nandalal_bose.jpg","intro":"Nandalal Bose drew his early philosophical inspiration from Ananda Coomaraswamy, Sister Nivedita and E. B. Havell, and also from the Japanese painters in Calcutta whose influence impressed upon him the significance of valuing one\u2019s artistic heritage.","name":"Nandalal Bose","profile":"https://dagworld.com/nandalalbose.html","year":"1882 - 1966"}]