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Place of Birth: Dinajpur District, Rangpur Division, Bangladesh
About Haren Das
- Harendra Narayan Das (1 February 1921 – 31 January 1993), better known as Haren Das, was a highly respected artist in India who worked almost exclusively in printmaking mediums.
- His work included engravings, linocuts, etchings, and lithographs, though he is most remembered for the technical skill of his woodcuts and wood engravings.Haren Das followed a tradition of wood engraving that developed in the bazaars of north Calcutta in the mid-19th century.
- His early academic training was received partially from Ramendranath Chakravorty (1902–55), who had been influenced in color woodcut printing by the Japanese style of Ukiyo-e prints.
- Throughout his life Das perfected his woodcut and wood engraving techniques, sometimes producing multi-colored prints of enormous technical proficiency.
- Though Das created numerous etchings, aquatints, dry points and linocuts, he seldom ventured outside the realm of printmaking.
- Working during a time when fine art was equated with painting and sculpture, Haren Das was often criticized for working in what was then considered little more than a commercially oriented craft.Throughout his career Das remained committed to British academic and Victorian ideals that included concepts of perfection and traditionally perceived beauty.
- Unlike artists such as Somnath Hore, who reacted with brutal directness to the horrors of the 1943 Bengal Famine, Haren Das remained focused upon his vision of a rural ideal.
- However, his bucolic images paid continuous homage to the hardworking people of India’s farms and villages.In 1947 Das became a teacher at the Government School of Art in Calcutta, and in 1951 he became a Lecturer at the Government College of Art & Craft in the same city.
- His printmaking work has been exhibited and recognized in India, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Argentina and Chile.
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