Ramkinkar, the ‘Social Realist’in Indian Art
Keywords:
Sculpture, Social RealistAbstract
Any artist is always influenced by his social environment and surroundings. RamkinkarBaij, who has given birth to modern thought in Indian sculpture even could not escape the social environment since then. Consciously or unconsciously, social thought has always driven him away. From the famine in Bengal at that time to the nature around him, Santhal people's life all emerged in his work with a new identity. First time, the labour class people became the subject of the sculpture by his hand. These works would not have been possible for any artist without deep sensitivity and social sympathy. Although he was a thoroughly modern sculptor in the Indian context in terms of subject matter, ideas, medium and technique, he was also a social realist. An attempt has been made to analyze this issue in this study.
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