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Mohan Samant

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year

c. 1952

size

18.0 x 23.7 in. / 45.7 x 60.2 cm.

medium

Acrylic, gouache and marker on cardboard

Mohan Samant drew on primitive art, which was accentuated by the artist’s unconventional mix of colours, crisp lines, sporadic textures and figural stylisations. The relief-like quality recalls the folk and mural art traditions that hark far back in time. Samant’s work is layered. It is a fusion of the abstract, the primitive and his own painterly expression. Fascinated with the cultures of Greece and Rome, and Hinduism and Buddhism, Samant studied and absorbed their non-realistic and mythological forms and they appeared variously in his work, as here.

published references

Singh, Kishore, Memory & Identity: Indian Artists Abroad (New Delhi: DAG, 2016), p. 275
Tillotson, Giles, Primitivism and Modern Indian Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2019), p. 288-89

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