Untitled

The Neo-Bengal movement had frittered away by the middle of the twentieth century, though practitioners such as Amalnath Chakladhar utilised its tenets as a basis of experimentation. The Untitled work is of epical proportions both in its subject—the great migratory journey of a solitary bird of prey—and the lengthy painting process undertaken by the artist. The imagery here is infused with mythology as the sun resembles a gigantic eye. The viewer shares the bird’s supernatural sense of sight, where we visualise not only the radiating streaks of light but also the lateral winds flowing across the canvas.