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Somnath Hore (1921-2006) was an Indian sculptor and printmaker. His sketches, sculptures and prints were a reaction to major historical crises and events of 20th century Bengal, such as the Bengal Famine of 1943 and the Tebhaga movement. He was a recipient of the Indian civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan. [1] Early life.
Somnath Hore (1921-2006) was an Indian sculptor and printmaker. His sketches, sculptures and prints were a reaction to major historical crises and events of 20th century Bengal, such as the Bengal Famine of 1943 and the Tebhaga movement.
Somnath Hore was an Indian artist born in 1921 in Chittagong, Bangladesh. He was known for his work in sculpture and printmaking, often reflecting on the historical crises and events of 20th century Bengal.
Born in 1921, in Chittagong (now Bangladesh), Somnath Hore was a Printmaker, widely known for developing his own technique called White on White Pulp Prints and documenting the Bengal Famine in 1943.
A pioneer of the twentieth-century modern art movement in India, Somnath Hore is recognized as a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and social activist. Over the years, Hore boldly used his extraordinary talents as a graphic artist and printmaker to express his angst against the socio-political systems that bred acts of violence.
Somnath Hore was born in 1921 in Chittagong, now in Bangladesh. In his youth he became affiliated with the Communist Party, and his socialist ideologies influenced the early phases of his artistic career.
Somnath Hore's pictorial language in his sketches, sculptures, and prints is more often a reaction to one of the major crises that hit Bengal in the 20th century. Here we focus on his printmaking. In simple terms, a print is created where ink is transferred from a block or plate on to a paper.
