Somnath hore biography for kids

Somnath Horewas not one to paint the blue of the skies, the glitter of the sands, or the green of the whispering trees. Instead, he captured the helpless tremble of a hand, the frail body struck by hunger, lying on the ground. In Somnath’s vision, it was the stark reality of human suffering that demanded attention. 

Starving bodies strewn across the village streets, mothers hiding children in their skeletal embrace, empty faces with sunken eyes, and animals with jutting out bones and half-peeled skin. These were the devastating effects of the 1943 famine, World War 2, and the Japanese Bombings that ravaged Bengal. Somnath Hore was witness to the human drama with a skill to translate the human predicament into art. His paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings revealed a torn and injured world depicting a kind of social realism. His subject matter drew attention to the life of people in Bengal; the helpless, deserted, and starved afte