Somnath Hore was born in a village called Barama in Chittagong in present day Bangladesh in 1921. While he was still very young, he started making posters for the Communist party. It was with the help of the leader of this party that he was admitted into the Government College of Art & Craft. From 1954 to 1958 he was a lecturer at the Indian College of Art and Draughtsmanship in Calcutta. Thereafter, till 1967, he held posts like the "in-charge of the Graphic section" at the Delhi College of Art, visiting faculty at the MS University in Baroda and the head of the Graphic Art department of Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati. In 1960, he became a member of the Society of Contemporary Artists.

The anguished human form has widely been reflected in Hore's figuration. The visual appeal of his work is increased by the rough surfaces, slits, holes and exposed channels.

He died in 2006, Santiniketan, West Bengal.

WORK

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by Somnath Hore
Watercolour on paper
1986

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by Somnath Hore
Dry pastel, watercolour and charcoal on paper
1981

Untitled
by Somnath Hore
Bronze
1980

ESSAYS

The graphic art of Somnath Hore

by Jaya Appasamy

Many artists arrive at their vocation through trial and error and after a meandering education that has finally led them to discover their true passion when they sacrifice all else for its sake. An artist's early life is often one of change and adventure, of the pursuit of ideals or of the illusory

Hunger & The Painter Somnath Hore & The Wounds

by Pranab Ranjan Ray

Memory does not retain every incident experienced by man. It only records those encounters and experiences which stimulate strong positive or negative responses. Such emotional experiences tend to have a profound influence in shaping man's life and his entire being. Social psychologists like Erik Erikson

Somnath Hore

The graphic art of Somnath Hore

Hunger & The Painter Somnath Hore & The Wounds

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