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The paper tries to analyze the silk paintings of Maniklal Banerjee (1917-2002) who was greatly in... more The paper tries to analyze the silk paintings of Maniklal Banerjee (1917-2002) who was greatly influenced by the artists of the so-called Bengal school of art. The school started by Abanindranath Tagore did not remain confined to its own time and space, but grew into dynamic new modernisms over a span of nearly a century. Art historian Sivakumar invoked a number of artists of Santiniketan and called it a " contextual modernism ". The paper tries to re-read the spirit of Santiniketan artists on the more recent and un-researched art of Maniklal Banerjee-who contextualized in his own way the Bengal 'school' that had by now turned into a 'movement'. The spirit of freedom runs at the core of this movement and finds a new language in the late twentieth century artist's renderings of daily life and Puranic narrations.
The paper tries to analyze the silk paintings of Maniklal Banerjee (1917-2002) who was greatly in... more The paper tries to analyze the silk paintings of Maniklal Banerjee (1917-2002) who was greatly influenced by the artists of the so-called Bengal school of art. The school started by Abanindranath Tagore did not remain confined to its own time and space, but grew into dynamic new modernisms over a span of nearly a century. Art historian Sivakumar invoked a number of artists of Santiniketan and called it a " contextual modernism ". The paper tries to re-read the spirit of Santiniketan artists on the more recent and un-researched art of Maniklal Banerjee-who contextualized in his own way the Bengal 'school' that had by now turned into a 'movement'. The spirit of freedom runs at the core of this movement and finds a new language in the late twentieth century artist's renderings of daily life and Puranic narrations.