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Haren Das
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Born in 1921 in Dinajpur - a small town in undivided Bengal, now in Bangladesh, Haren Das took a diploma in Fine Art from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata. He specialized in graphic arts, besides studying mural painting.
Immediately after graduating in 1938, he joined as a lecturer in his alma mater. He also enrolled for a two-year teacher-training course, where he opted to study graphic art, woodcuts, lithography...
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Born in 1921 in Dinajpur - a small town in undivided Bengal, now in Bangladesh, Haren Das took a diploma in Fine Art from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata. He specialized in graphic arts, besides studying mural painting.
Immediately after graduating in 1938, he joined as a lecturer in his alma mater. He also enrolled for a two-year teacher-training course, where he opted to study graphic art, woodcuts, lithography and etchings. Das is considered to be one of the finest graphic artists India has ever produced, especially of woodcuts.
Das introduced line engraving and etching into the art curriculum of the Government College of Arts and Crafts, thus laying the foundation for print making and graphic art education in India. He once told an art writer, "Just as a poet or musician expresses his emotions and his interpretations of life through words and sounds, an artist visualizes the phenomenal world around him in the receptacle of his mind and expresses it in color and form. But an artist who is obsessed with woodcuts sees life through a special point of view and must work with light and shade, composing them into a picture and adapting his medium to the presentation."
Most of his works, especially his woodcuts and engravings, captured rural, pastoral Bengal. Despite using restrain and economy, Das has managed to offer a glimpse of a Bengal that no longer exists. Most of his work is a nostalgic reflection into a childhood and youth spent in Dinajpur. In his works, the artist depicts man as part of nature, an individual who lives in harmony with the elements surrounding him. His works talk of cobbled streets, buffaloes, the village well, women with pots on their heads...
A winner of the several national awards, Das held several one-man shows and group shows across India. His works are in the collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, the Calcutta Art Gallery and many other state galleries. In 1950, he published a book of engravings titled `Bengal Village in Wood`.
Haren Das died in Kolkata in 1968.
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Born
1921
Died
1993
Education
1951-81 Lecturer, Graphics Department, Government College of Art and Craft (GCAC), Kolkata
1947 Taught Printmaking, Government School of Art (GSA), Kolkata
1946 Two Years Teachership, under Ramendranath Chakravarti, Government School of Art (GSA), Kolkata
1943 Art Teacher, Zilla School. Coomilla, East Bengal (now Bangladesh)
1938-44 Diploma, Government School of Art (GSA), Kolkata
Exhibitions
Selected Posthumous Exhibitions
2010 'Manifestations IV',...
Selected Posthumous Exhibitions
2010 'Manifestations IV', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 Solo exhb., The End of Toil. Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2004 Manifestations II, organised by Delhi Art Gallery, Mumbai & New Delhi
2003 Manifestations, organised by Delhi Art Gallery, Mumbai & New Delhi
1999 Retrospective, Right Lines Art Gallery, Bangalore
1998 Retrospective, Alternative Art Gallery, Kolkata
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1983 'Retrospective', Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi
1979 Academy of Fine Art (AFA), Kolkata
1964 Kala Shavan, Viswa Bharti University (VBU), Santiniketan
Participations
1960 20th Annual All India Art Exhibition, All India Fine Art and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi
1959 3rd International Graphics Art Exhibition, Ljublana, Yugoslavia
1958 All India Fine Art and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi in Bulgaria
1956 Silver Jubilee Art Exhibition, All India Fine Art and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi
1952 Indian Academy of Fine Arts (IAFA), Amritsar
1951,58 7th & 10th All India Art Exhibition, Shilpa Kala Parishad, Patna
1951 20th Annual All India Art Exhibition, All India Fine Art and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi
1950 Academy of Fine Art (AFA), Kolkata
1941 All India Art in Industrial Exhibition, Kolkata
Honours and Awards
1989 Received Abanindra Puraskar, Rabindra Bharti University (RBU), Kolkata...
1989 Received Abanindra Puraskar, Rabindra Bharti University (RBU), Kolkata
1986-87 Akademi Award, West Bengal State Academy of Dance, Drama, Music & Visual Arts, Kolkata
1970 Smithsonian Printmaking Workshop, New Delhi
1958 Gold Medal, Society of Painters, Chennai
1955,56,57,61,68 Gold Medal. Mysore Dasara Exhibition, Mysore
1953 Silver Medal, Mysore Dasara Exhibition, Mysore
1952 Artworks included in the Encyclopedia, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria
1950,51,58,62,63 Gold Medal, Shilpa Kala Parishad, Patna
1950 Published a Book of Engravings titled 'Bengal Village in Wood'
1949,50,54 Gold Medal, Academy of Fine Art (AFA), Kolkata
1949,55 Gold Medal. Hyderabad Art Society (HAS), Hyderabad
1941 Certificate of Merit, All India Art in Industry Exhibition, Kolkata
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Happy Pairs
Etching on paper
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18-19 May 2011
After the Rain
Etching and aquatint on paper
8.5 x 12.5 in
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Through the Palm ...
Woodcut on paper
7 x 10 in
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