Intricate Intaglios in Kolkata(Kolkata)

Uma Nair

No one thought a sculptor from Shantiniketan would go to France, to forge a new process in printmaking that celebrated the broken colour or pointillist colour printing process. Using techniques of plate preparation such as aquatint, mezzotint, photo engraving and deep biting, the print maker and avowed mentor in France developed rare colour fields in printing with juxtaposed dots or broken colours to give us islands of intensities and activities in the interlinking intricacy of colours. Professor Krishna Reddy created for himself a rare pantheon in printmaking as he simplified technical processes while creating powerful colour areas never imagined before.