‘He will be remembered for his experiments in intaglio printmaking’
Pioneering printmaker and educationist, known for his surreal works, Sanat Kar dies in Santiniketan
Veteran artist Sanat Kar passed away at 88 (Source: Wikimedia Commons) Sanat Kar, an important figure in Indian art from Santiniketan, died on January 9. Born in 1935 in West Bengal, Kar was a veteran in the practice and education of printmaking, and had a long association with Kala Bhavana, the centre for visual art practice and research at Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan.
Kar joined the printmaking (graphics) department in 1974, went on to head the department and retired as principal of Kala Bhavana in 1995. Former professor of history of art at Kala Bhavana, R Siva Kumar, posted on social media, “An artist who inherited the imaginative world of the Bengal School and created prints and paintings that oscillated between the lyrical and the occasionally unsettling, [Kar] will be remembered for his experiments in intaglio printmaking. Since 1974 he lived and worked at Santiniketan and was a prominent member of its art community.”
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