It’s in the interplay of light and shadow, the remarkable detailing, and the documentation of the idyllic life of rural India, particularly Bengal, that Haren Das’s works gain immense importance. He was, through his prints, giving us a perspective of what moments of quietness and stillness meant, when the rest of the land was facing upheaval with communal riots, famine, hunger. This documentation is equally important and relevant. Das’s prints, then, provide us with a visual vocabulary that gains merit on the chosen subject and its treatment.
published references
Singh, Kishore, ed., Indian Landscapes: The Changing Horizon (New Delhi: DAG, 2012), p. 181
Haren Das
Through the Palm Trees
1973
Woodcut on paper
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Through the Palm Trees
1973
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