Resonance

Hemanta Misra was one of the earliest Indian artists to explore surrealism extensively, staying true to the genre’s objective of achieving ‘superreality’—as stated in the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 by French author and poet André Breton, it aimed at resolving ‘the contradictory conditions of dream and reality into absolute reality’. In Resonance, Misra gives expression to the psychic state, where all dimensions of reality fade into each other, frothing into a nebulous mass of superreality. The choice of green is interesting as it is the colour of balance and growth, but also denotes evil in many cultures.