Somnath Hore was born in a village called Barama in Chittagong in present day Bangladesh in 1921. While he was still very young, he started making posters for the Communist party. His artistic intervention during the Tebhaga movement and the Bengal Famine of 1943 has not only become iconic, but remains as a document and a testimony to the artist???s ability to record the heights of human suffering and to endow the downtrodden with subjectivity. It was with the help of the leader of this party that he was admitted into the Government College of Art & Craft. ??Hore was a celebrated sculptor and print maker, in fact, he is credited for having developed the ???pulp-print??? technique of printmaking, which he used to legendary effect in his acclaimed ???Wounds??? series.??Hore died in 2006.

In his prints we see the anguished human form that has been widely reflected in Hore's figuration. The visual appeal of his work is increased by the rough surfaces, slits, holes and exposed channels. Hore???s work is tinted by his humanist eye, his penchant towards empathy, and his communist ideology.