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    Benode Behari Mukherjee was a pioneering Indian artist born in 1904 who joined the art school at Santiniketan in 1919. Though he became completely blind by age 50, Mukherjee remained deeply creative through drawings, sculptures made by folding paper, and writing. He is renowned for experimenting across diverse media and drawing inspiration from nature, everyday life, and a visit to Japan. Mukherjee received several literary awards and helped establish Indian modern art despite facing significant adversity with his vision.

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    Benode Behari Mukherjee was a pioneering Indian artist born in 1904 who joined the art school at Santiniketan in 1919. Though he became completely blind by age 50, Mukherjee remained deeply creative through drawings, sculptures made by folding paper, and writing. He is renowned for experimenting across diverse media and drawing inspiration from nature, everyday life, and a visit to Japan. Mukherjee received several literary awards and helped establish Indian modern art despite facing significant adversity with his vision.

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    Benode Behari Mukherjee (1904-1980)

    Born in 1904 in Behala, Bengal, Benode Behari Mukherjee joined Santiniketan in 1917 and Kala Bhavana in 1919,
    where he was one of the first students of Nandalal Bose. A congenitally impaired vision that denied him normal
    schooling and resulted in a lonely childhood, brought him close to nature and had a deep impact on his art.
    Though Mukherjee turned completely blind by the time he turned 50, his creative urge remained undiminished.
    He began making drawings and small sculptures based upon figural images achieved by folding paper. He also
    took to serious writing, using it as a tool to express his personal views on art. In 1973, Satyajit Ray made a
    documentary on his work, called The Inner Eye. Mukherjee received two literary awards, the Rabindra Puraskar
    and the Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad Award, the latter in the year of his death.

    Description
    Style of Art
    A Title: Lady with Fruit

    R Creator: Benode
    Behari Mukherjee
    Lady with Fruit 1957 is a paper collage on
    Mukherjee renounced the overt card that depicts a female figure, seen
    symbolism of mythology in favour T Date Created: 1957
    Physical Dimension:
    frontally and positioned in the centre of the
    of themes from everyday life. The almost square composition. She holds a
    expressionism of his early works W Support: 257 × 280
    mm
    number of brightly coloured items in her
    may be compared with the work hands and lap, and is surrounded by
    of the German expressionist O Type: Paper and
    graphite on paper
    abstract shapes in similarly bold colours,
    group Die Brucke. A visit to Japan including orange, green, pink, blue and
    in 1936 proved particularly R Other Works:
    Mountains,
    yellow. All of the forms in the composition
    significant as he was an admirer of are made from pieces of cut paper in bright
    the Tosa School of Painting. K Laughter, Game etc.
    hues that are pasted onto beige-coloured
    Experimenting constantly in his card.
    drawings, sketches, woodcuts, dry- Conclusion/ Note on my understanding
    points and lithographs, he soon "Against all odds"is perhaps the most apt phrase to describe the inspiring journey of Benode
    diversified to mural paintings. His Behari Mukherjee - one of India's most celebrated modern artists. His contribution to the References:-
    perceptions of the Santiniketan development of Indian art is immensely significant; though it is his life's message of continuously https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/
    landscape and campus life found learning and doing that is his ultimate legacy. He always took inspiration from Nature and his mukherjee-lady-with-fruit-t14329
    artistic expression in several surroundings. His art did not reflect any any nationalistic tendencies, they instead revealed his https://www.theheritagelab.in/benode
    compositional calligraphic affinity towards landscapes. He became the first indian artist to travel to Japan & exhibit his work beharimukherjee-indian-artist/
    paintings. Mukherjee travelled there. He was a man of many talents. If we look at his artworks, we'd find sketches, water colors, https://engrave.in/blog/indian-art-
    widely, becoming for a brief while binod-behari-mukherjee/
    tempera on wood, works on silk, felt tip pen and chinese ink on paper, textile block print, etchings,
    the curator at the Nepal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benode_
    lithographs and his paper collages. What is even more stunning about the mural is the fact that Behari_Mukherjee
    Government Museum in Benode Behari executed it spontaneously-without any priorly made sketches /plans!
    Kathmandu, a period when he By 1957 he had lost his eyesight completely - but not his vision. Mukherjee's disability did not
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    painted the country in a series of PRAKRITI GORAI
    hinder his creativity either. Mukherjee turned to paper collage as a medium for artistic expression
    drawings and watercolours. (BFT/19/75)
    in 1957 when he lost his sight, at the age of fifty-three. His work reflected his dedication even
    though he had many challenges.

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