Jamini Roy — Statement Duo | Black Horse & Fawn | Bengali Art Print

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Jamini Roy — Statement Duo | Black Horse & Fawn | Bengali Art PrintJamini Roy (18871972) was India's first great modern painter to develop a visual language rooted in Indian folk tradition rather than European academic painting an artist who drew on the Kalighat pat scroll painters of Bengal and on Santali and tribal art to create a bold, flat, intensely graphic style that was simultaneously ancient and radically modern. His horses, cats, Radha Krishna compositions, and Christian subjects painted in the Bengal idiom

his intensely coloured portraits and Meditation heads — distilled to pure colour and simplified form — represent one of the most distinctive paths through European modernism

bold silhouettes

Their paired studies of women in repose — Casas's After the Ball and Sargent's Nonchaloir — are among the most psychologically acute images of feminine life in late 19th-century art

and one of the most significant painters of domestic life and the feminine experience in art history

he produced over 600 prints across a career of extraordinary consistency and beauty

His technique was meticulous

it dissolved the boundary between fine art and functional design

Working in the tradition of Ludwig Deutsch

political thinker

a supreme colourist

His works are now among the most avidly collected objects in Japanese art

he produced images of death

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