Chittaprosad Bhattacharya
Chittaprosad Bhattacharya | |
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Calcutta, India | |
Died | 13 November 1978 | (aged 63)
Chittaprosad Bhattacharya (21 June, 1915 - 13 November, 1978) was an Indian political artist of the mid-20th century. He preferred watercolor and printmaking, avoiding oil on canvas.
Early life
Born in 1915 in
Career and style
Chittraprosad’s most creative years began in the 1930s. He satirized and sharply criticized the
During World War II in 1943, Chittaprosad covered the Bengal Famine and used his art to expose it in various leftist nationalist media in the form of art, illustrating humans suffering from hunger that he had witnessed while traveling around that part of India. This resulted in his first publication, Hungry Bengal. It was a sharply provocative attack on the political and social powers of the time. The British authorities suppressed it nearly immediately, impounding and destroying large copies of Hungry Bengal.[5]
Chittaprosad settled more permanently in Bombay from 1946 onward. The transformations that the Communist Party took between 1948 and 1949, caused the artist to disassociate himself from communism, though he continued to pursue political themes in his art to the end of his life. In the years before his death, Chittaprosad devoted more and more time to the world peace movement,[clarification needed] and various efforts to help impoverished children.[5]
He is represented in the National Museum in Prague, The National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, Osians Art Archive in Mumbai, and the Jane and Kito de Boer Collection in Dubai.[2]
References
- ^ Sen, Arup Kumar (March 5, 2016). "Chittaprosad Bhattacharya (1915–78)". Economic & Political Weekly. Vol. LI, no. 10.
- ^ ISBN 81-902104-0-8
- ^ Manifestations I, Santo Datta, Delhi Art Gallery, 2003, New Delhi
- ^ Collection of Indian Printmaking, www.waswoxwaswoartcollection.blogspot.com
- ^ ISBN 81-902104-1-6
External links
- Profile on Google Arts & Culture Archived 2022-05-27 at the Wayback Machine