Untitled

The semi-representational figures in Somnath Hore’s pictorial language eventually gave way to complete abstraction, evident in this Untitled work, all the while retaining the ethos of his art—pain, tragedy, suffering. Deeply affected by the violence that stemmed around him, of which he was also a witness—Hore translated the angst into his art. His work reveals his resilience as an artist who internalised the trauma to turn it into an aesthetic narrative.