RABIN MONDAL (1932-2019)

Rabin Mondal's "Cubo-Futuristic experiments with human forms and pictorial space came out in two important paintings [Brothel I & II]. Suddenly violent quarrels break the tenuous peace in sleazy brothels. The verbal violence soon lapses into free fights between the inmates and their patron. The pictorial space with its dynamic corrugation of the surface breaks into the cubist-inspired stylised human forms, vertically slotting the melee of limbs, heads and torsos. The treatment is strongly suggestive of violent futuristic movement." (S. Datta, After The Fall, Time, Life & Art of Rabin Mondal, New Delhi, 2005, p. 79)