Until July 15, the Departmental Museum of Asian Arts is hosting the exhibition “Eight Masters of Bengal,” organized by AKAR PRAKAR ART.
The Museum of Asian Arts is displaying works, paintings, and sculptures by eight contemporary masters of Bengali painting. Still relatively unknown, this art from Bengal is astonishingly modern.
Following an artistic revival in the 1940s, Bengali artists were profoundly impacted by the events related to Indian independence and the partition of Bengal. This troubled society, destabilized by rapid urbanization, deeply influenced the artists, who drew strength from this context to continue a renewed creative process.
The eight masters, painters, sculptors, engravers, illustrate the profound vitality of Bengali art, its cultural identity, and its place in the contemporary Indian art movement.
Exhibited Artists:
Paritosh Sen (1918 – 2008)
Somnath Hore (1921 – 2006)
Meera Mukherjee (1923 – 1998)
Sarbari Roy Choudhury (1933 – 2012)
Sanat Kar (1935 – )
Ganesh Haloi (1936 – )
Ganesh Pyne (1937 – 2013)
Jogen Chowdhury (1939 – )
