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Mohan Samant
Untitled
year
1966 size
45.0 x 83.0 in. / 114.3 x 210.8 cm. medium
Oil, encaustic, plaster of paris, rope and sand on canvas
This Untitled work from Mohan Samant’s early years shows his attraction for art of the ancient Egyptians, or prehistoric cave art. Mural-like arrangement of Egyptian wall drawings and hieroglyphics, the mixed media giving the canvas a rough texture of cave walls, the figures in white, their sideways-pointed feet typical of ancient Egyptian iconography, all these elements come together remarkably. Besides the figures, huddled together, probably scared and worried, there are other symbols—a trident, a hand—regarded in ancient times as protection against the evil eye. published references
Singh, Kishore, ed., Manifestations IX | 75 Artists, 20th Century Indian Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2013), p. 127
Singh, Kishore, ed., Mumbai Modern: Progressive Artists’ Group, 1947-2013 (New Delhi: DAG, 2013), pp. 428-429
Singh, Kishore, ed., A Visual History of Indian Modern Art, Volume V: Rise of Modernism (New Delhi: DAG, 2015), p. 975
Singh, Kishore, Memory & Identity: Indian Artists Abroad (New Delhi: DAG, 2016), p. 278-279
Singh, Kishore, ed., Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2016), pp. 375, 376-77
Tillotson, Giles, Primitivism and Modern Indian Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2019), pp. 286-87
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