Going the the Fair

Haren Das was a prominent printmaker and master of academic naturalism, and unlike his contemporaries who were moving away from realism, he remained faithful to this style throughout his artistic career. Having grown up in a farming community in East Dinajpur (in present day Bangladesh), Das extensively documented the pattern of life in the villages of Bengal. In this woodcut on paper, an expert use of light and shadow is made to focus on a family inside a bullock-drawn carriage, leaving for the fair.