Sailoz Mookherjea
Sailoz Mookherjea is one the India’s earliest modern painters, in 1979 he was featured as on the list of nine Master Artist by Archaeological Survey of India. Born in 1907 in Kolkata, Mookherjea received his diploma in Fine arts from Government College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta in 1932. He then became a teacher at Delhi Polytechnic, and served as Art Director at Imperial Tobacco company before moving to Paris in 1937.
There was a transformation in his work after his stay in Europe, but most of works shows the scenes of rural Indian people. He owes his inspiration to Matisse Odalisques but his main influences were the folk art of India and the Basholi Miniatures.
Sailoz works mostly reflect his innermost poetic consciousness. With his powerful and magical str...
Sailoz Mookherjea is one the India’s earliest modern painters, in 1979 he was featured as on the list of nine Master Artist by Archaeological Survey of India. Born in 1907 in Kolkata, Mookherjea received his diploma in Fine arts from Government College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta in 1932. He then became a teacher at Delhi Polytechnic, and served as Art Director at Imperial Tobacco company before moving to Paris in 1937.
There was a transformation in his work after his stay in Europe, but most of works shows the scenes of rural Indian people. He owes his inspiration to Matisse Odalisques but his main influences were the folk art of India and the Basholi Miniatures.
Sailoz works mostly reflect his innermost poetic consciousness. With his powerful and magical strokes, he infuses landscapes and scenes of people mostly with an element of illusion. His style mostly seems like one is not looking at a still painting but a motion pictures, the fluidity and motion inherent in his paintings make each painting stand out. His works has a sensation like a poem in motion, a musical composition, a dance performance choreographed to perfection.
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