Chittaprosad: Linocuts & Woodcuts — Akar Prakar
2018年7月23日 · Denied admission by Government School of Art, Kolkata and Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, Chittaprosad, went on to become a self-taught artist maturing into one of the …
Chittaprosad | A self-taught artist, poet, and storyteller | DAG
2011年9月11日 · One of India’s most important artists, Chittaprosad recorded pivotal political and social movements in the country, such as the Great Bengal Famine of 1943-44 and its fallout, in heart-wrenching sketches and drawings, alongside protests against colonialism, economic exploitation, urban poverty and depravity, just as beautifully as the many drawi...
Chittaprosad Bhattacharya - Wikipedia
Chittraprosad’s most creative years began in the 1930s. He satirized and sharply criticized the feudal and colonial systems in quickly drawn but masterful pen and ink sketches. As an artist, and reformer, Chittaprosad was also proficient at creating linocuts and woodcuts with obvious propagandistic intent. [2] .
Chittoprasad Bhattacharya, whose sketches on Bengal famine …
2020年3月18日 · In the 1940s, he was inspired by Purnendu Dastidar to join revolutionary activities and took shelter at the office of the Student Federation of India in Kolabagan. During this time, many of his anti-Fascist woodcut prints, sketches and cartoons were published in the party’s journal Jana-Yuddha aka ‘People’s War.
This Common Man's Provocative & Tragic Art Exposed the British …
2020年3月30日 · Chittoprasad’s sketches captured horrific scenes of children starving away with an almost translucent layer of skin loosely covering their skeletal structure, communal killings, ravages of war and even the intricate details of lanky men and women with exposed rib-cages, eagerly awaiting the call of death.
Chittaprosad | A self-taught artist, poet, and storyteller | DAG
Chittaprosad drew inspiration from village sculptors, artisans and puppeteers. The devastating Bengal famine of 1943-44 resulted in his brutally honest depiction of human suffering in stark drawings and sketches made in pen and ink.
The Artist Who Sketched a Famine in India - Hyperallergic
2018年4月30日 · Chittaprosad, an artist known for his sketches and prints, was born in 1915 in eastern India and was commissioned by the Communist Party of India in the early 1940s as an illustrator and sketch...
Chittaprosad | Indian Artist | Bengal Famine - MAP Academy
2022年4月21日 · An artist and activist known for his political cartoons and illustrations, Chittaprosad Bhattacharya documented grassroots movements, peasant struggles and urban resistance in West Bengal. He rejected the caste system, and therefore his Brahmin surname, and is known by his first name alone.
Chittaprosad's Linocuts: Voices of the Oppressed | Prinseps
Chittaprosad's impactful linocuts highlight urban poverty and the Bengal Famine. A self-taught artist and Communist, he rejected elitism and supported grassroots movements.
Chittaprosad Bhattacharya's Art on the Bengal Famine
Chittaprosad Bhattacharya was born in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. He was a political activist and artist who in his art evocatively and sensitively represented the horrors of the British-inflicted famine in Bengal in 1943.