Early life
Binod Behari Mukherjee was born in Behala, in the state of West Bengal, now
recently included into Kolkata (2009 onwards). He taught at Visva Bharati
University in Santiniketan.
Career
Mukherjee was born with severe eye problem, being myopic on one eye and
blind in the other, he continued to paint and do murals even after he lost
his eyesight completely following an eye operation in 1956. In 1919, he took
admission in Kala-Bhavan, the art faculty of Visva-Bharati University. He
was a student of another celebrated Indian artist Nandlal Bose, and a friend
and close associate of Ramkinkar Baij, the celebrated sculptor. In 1925, he
joined Kala Bhavan as a member of the teaching faculty. He inspired many
brilliant students over the years, notable among them are painter Jahar
Dasgupta, K.G. Subramanyan [1], Beohar Rammanohar Sinha [2], sculptor &
printmaker Somnath Hore, designer Riten Majumdar and filmmaker Satyajit Ray.
In 1949, he left Kala Bhavan and joined as a curator at the Nepal Government
Museum in Kathmandu. From 1951-52, he taught at the Banasthali Vidyapith in
Rajasthan. In 1952, he along with his wife Leela, started an art training
school in Mussoorie. In 1958, he returned to Kala Bhavan, and later became
its principal. In 1979, a collection of his Bengali writings, Chitrakar was
published.
Style
His style was a complex fusion of idioms absorbed from Western modern art
and the spirituality of oriental traditions (both Indian and Far-Eastern).
Some of his works show a marked influence of Far-Eastern traditions, namely
calligraphy and traditional wash techniques of China and Japan. He took
lessons in calligraphy from travelling artists from Japan. During 1937-38 he
spend few months in Japan with artist such as Arai Kampo. Similarly he also
learnt from the Indian miniature painting in the frescoes of Mughal and
Rajput periods. Idioms of Western modern art also bore heavily upon his
style, as he is often seen to blend Cubist techniques (such as
multi-perspective and faceting of planes) to solve problems of space. Above
all, his style was celebrated and acclaimed because of the harmonious blend
he achieved out of all these different traditions. His grand murals inside
the Visva-Bharati campus are testimony to that. In 1948 he went to become
director of National Museum of Kathmandu, in Nepal. In the later years he
went to Doon valley, where he started an art school but had to discontinue
due the financial shortage.
In 1972 Mukherjee's former student at Santiniketan, filmmaker Satyajit Ray,
made a documentary film on him titled "The Inner Eye". The film is an
intimate investigation of Mukherjee's creative persona and how he copes with
his blindness being a visual artist.
Mukherjee's daughter Mrinalini is also an artist.[3].
Awards and honors
In 1974, he received the Padma Vibhushan award. He was conferred with the
Deshikottama by the Visva Bharati University in 1977. He received the
Rabindra Puraskar in 1980.
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