| Brief Description |
Benode Behari Mukherjee led art beyond the dominance of literary subjects and mythology, to a form that gave importance to pictorial elements such as color, line and texture. As an artist, he has experimented with many mediums, ranging from murals to collage, from woodcuts to calligraphy, from watercolors, oil paint, ink and crayons to graphics. He was known to record his visual experiences on small cards, and occasionally in large brush-and-ink drawings, or paintings. He explored the capacity to show character in a subject through the juxtaposing of positive and negative space.
His prints like 'Girl', 'Evening Accounts', or 'Man Seated' consciously hint at creating social commentaries, setting the tone for the period of social realism that followed, in the 1930's. |
