Chittaprosad – Lalit Kala Series of Contemporary Indian Art – 1993

English text with colorful works of the renowned artist Chittaprosad.

Published by: Lalit Kala Akademi

Year: 1993

Condition: Good

About the Artist: Chittaprosad Bhattacharya (21 June, 1915 - 13 November, 1978) was an Indian political artist of the mid-20th century.

Born in West Bengal, he was a self-taught artist who experimented constantly with the art of picture making and was a master of many forms. His hard-hitting caricatures and sketches of the poor dying in the Bengal famine (1943) worked like modern day reportage, and shook the middle class and the British officials out of their apathy. In 1946, he moved to Mumbai and joined the Communist Party of India, and started making a work series on Navel Mutiny. Bhattacharya's works reflect his reformist concerns. They are a depiction of the images that were his preoccupation --- poor peasants and laborers. His reformist concerns showed in his life too, when he refused to use his Brahminical surname 'Bhattacharyya'. Today, collectors and lovers of art treasure Bhattacharya's woodcuts, linocuts and posters immensely. He even joined the World Peace Movement. Bhattacharya first exhibited in Prague's National Gallery and was heralded in the international artist community as a master. 'Confession', a documentary on his life by Pavel Hobl (Czech) won a special prize from the World Peace Council. He passed away in 1978.

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