Ramkinkar was well aware of the post-industrial art or modern art movements in the western and eastern art worlds and tried to incorporate the dynamics of such changes in his own work while keeping the aesthetic tradition of Santiniketan in focus. In this abstract painting, he has composed

different forms by strategically placing shapes on the canvas. 

Ramkinkar Baij was a reclusive modernist artist who always remained on the fringes of the art market. He took a great interest in human figures, body language and in the general human drama. Modern Western art and pre and post-classical Indian art were his main point of reference. Although primarily known for his expressionistic sculpture, he was also a gifted painter. The sense of rhythm that his sculpture was noted for, is manifested brilliantly in his watercolours.

His works in the Kalighat tradition interconnected with Cubism to achieve an unusual personal idiom. Both his sculpture and his paintings are unprompted and bold.