Centenary celebrations: Exhibition pays ode to sculptor and artist Somnath Hore

A recent exhibition by Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) titled ‘Somnath Hore: Birth of a White Rose’ paid tribute to the master artist; Somnath Hore Congregation in a Village, 1957 (Source: KNMA)

The exhibition showcased a selection of more that hundred works to mark Hore's centenary celebrations this year; Bronze sculpture of a goat (Source: KNMA)

Somnath Hore (1921- 2006) was born in Barama village in Chittagong, in undivided Bengal (present Bangladesh); Somnath Hore's untitled work (Source: KNMA)

Renditions were in a wide range of mediums such as oil on canvases, drawings in watercolour and crayons, different methods and techniques of printmaking and bronze cast sculptures; Somnath Hore's Refugee Family, 1960 (Source: KNMA)

Somnath Hore's Birth of A White Rose, 1961 (Source: KNMA)

Chronicling societal dynamics by observing class conflicts and the violence around, Hore's artworks were contemporary to a transformative cultural juncture when literature, theatre, cinema and other creative expressions in Bengal were touching crescendo; Untitled work (Source: KNMA)

According to the curatorial note, Hore inspired generations of students and artists while heading the department of printmaking at the Delhi Polytechnic in 1958, and subsequently the department of Graphics, Kala Bhavana in Santiniketan, West Bengal; Somnath Hore Untitled, 1981 (Source: KNMA)

Somnath Hore Untitled, 1992 (Source: KNMA)