Benode Behari Mukherjee

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Benode Behari Mukherjee was a pioneering Indian modernist painter and muralist associated with Santiniketan, known for his innovative visual language and profound influence on 20th-century Indian art.

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Benode Behari Mukherjee canonical 6
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instanceOf Indian painter
art educator
modernist artist
muralist
person
associatedWith Bengal School of Art
Kala Bhavana
Santiniketan
Visva-Bharati University
awardReceived Padma Shri
Padma Vibhushan
Rabindra Bharati University honorary D.Litt.
birthDate 1904-02-07
birthPlace Behala, Calcutta, British India
countryOfCitizenship India
deathDate 1980-11-11
educatedAt Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan
linked to: Kala Bhavana
employer Bharatiya Kala Bhavan, Benaras Hindu University
Doon School, Dehradun
linked to: Doon School

Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan
linked to: Kala Bhavana
familyName Mukherjee
fullName Benode Behari Mukherjee
genre collage
landscape painting
mural painting
givenName Benode Behari
hasWorkInCollection National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
Visva-Bharati University collections
influenced K. G. Subramanyan
linked to: K.G. Subramanyan

Ramkinkar Baij
Satyajit Ray
generations of Indian modernist painters
influencedBy Chinese landscape painting
East Asian art
Indian miniature painting
Japanese art
folk art of India
knownFor influence on 20th-century Indian art
innovative visual language in Indian modern art
pioneering mural work in India
teaching at Santiniketan
languageOfWorkOrName Bengali
English
medicalCondition blindness in later life
severe myopia
movement Contextual Modernism
Indian modernism
notableWork Medieval Saints of India mural at Hindi Bhavana, Santiniketan
Temple mural at Kalabhavan hostel, Santiniketan
collages and paper works created after blindness
landscape paintings of Santiniketan
mural at the Faculty of Hindi, Visva-Bharati
mural at the Hindi Bhavan, Santiniketan depicting Indian medieval saints
mural at the Hindi Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University
occupation muralist
painter
teacher
spouse Leela Mukherjee
studentOf Nandalal Bose
Rabindranath Tagore
subjectOf documentary film "The Inner Eye" by Satyajit Ray

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Kala Bhavana hasNotableAlumni Benode Behari Mukherjee
Kala Bhavana hasNotableFaculty Benode Behari Mukherjee
Nandalal Bose influenced Benode Behari Mukherjee
Benode Behari Mukherjee fullName Benode Behari Mukherjee
Benode Behari Mukherjee givenName Benode Behari
linked to: Benode Behari Mukherjee
K.G. Subramanyan influencedBy Benode Behari Mukherjee
Santiniketan School notableFigure Benode Behari Mukherjee