Regarded as the great doyen of Indian printmaking, for Somnath Hore the printmaking medium was intended to realise a specific aesthetic goal. Political in nature, these prints conveyed the impact of violence mounted by the powerful and the mighty on ordinary people. The solemn look on the two figures, possibly father and child, appears to foretell their doom in the proximate future. Or, possibly, the father narrates to the child the horrors of his own past while protectively putting his arm around him.
Somnath Hore
Untitled
Etching and viscosity on paper
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