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Street Dog

Street Dog

Street Dog

Maniklal Banerjee

Street Dog

year

1992

size

14.5 x 18.7 in. / 36.8 x 47.5 cm.

medium

Water colour on silk pasted on board

Barely remembered beyond textbooks in art schools, Maniklal Banerjee was one of the first innovators of the technique of using water colour on silk in India. Inspired by Abanindranath Tagore, many of his paintings had short verses or stories, some inspired by folklore. In this 1992 depiction of an urban dog-fight—executed in his new style—Bannerjee shows a street disappearing into the distance. The sense of perspective is created by the trees that grow smaller and his remarkably balanced composition makes the dogs appear larger, as if they were the central protagonists of an otherwise un-peopled city. The artist uses the borders to narrate the story of a put-upon underling bullied by a stronger animal.
Street Dog
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