| Medium | : | Acrylic |
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| Height | : | 52 inch / 132.1 cm |
| Width | : | 42 inch / 106.7 cm |
| Surface | : | Canvas |
| Style | : | Figurative Paintings |
| Dimension | : | W: 106.7 cm × H: 132.1 cm |
| Year | : | 2023 |
“Black Days – Lockdown” by Ashoke Mullick is a compelling contemporary artwork that reflects the emotional realities of life during the pandemic. Through layered imagery, masked figures, domestic scenes, and symbolic storytelling, the painting captures themes of isolation, resilience, uncertainty, and human connection with striking emotional depth.
Ashoke Mullick | Black Days-Lock Down | Acrylic on Canvas | 52 x 42 inches | 2023
“Black Days – Lockdown” is a powerful visual narrative that captures the emotional, social, and psychological atmosphere experienced during the pandemic lockdown years. Through a layered collage-like composition, the artwork brings together fragments of everyday life, isolation, fear, resilience, and human connection, creating a deeply moving reflection of a historic moment shared across the world.
Each section of the painting tells its own story — masked faces, confined interiors, silent figures, animals, memories, domestic spaces, and symbolic imagery all merge together like scattered thoughts trapped within time. The crowded structure resembles both a home and a world contained within walls, reflecting the emotional confinement people experienced during lockdown. Yet within the chaos, moments of warmth, care, survival, and humanity quietly emerge.
Ashoke Mullick uses bold textures, earthy tones, and expressive figurative elements to create a composition that feels raw, intimate, and emotionally honest. The fragmented storytelling allows viewers to discover new details with every glance, making the artwork highly engaging and deeply personal. The masks worn by the figures stand as lasting symbols of uncertainty and resilience, while the varied scenes reflect the emotional complexity of isolation, family life, anxiety, hope, and adaptation.
This artwork is not just a painting — it is a visual document of human experience during extraordinary times. Ideal for collectors of contemporary narrative art, cultural spaces, galleries, and thoughtful interiors, “Black Days – Lockdown” carries emotional depth, historical relevance, and strong artistic character.
I like to depict the modern times when people have lost all human contact and have become mechanised. They read newspapers, pick up some jargon and communicate most of the time by telephone. As a painter, I throw light on these aspects where traditions are breaking down and the relationship between generations is getting lost.
Ashoke Mullick is considered one of the leading painters from the Bengal School of Art. Mullick combines a sense of satire with contemporary conditions. His paintings focus strongly on the ordinary man and the contradictions he faces.
Sometimes the look is satiric at other times, it is compassionate, says Mullick of his own works. He uses colours like greens and blues to depict a largely urban India.
Mullick was educated at the Fine Arts Government College, Kolkata. He was greatly fascinated and influenced by works of painters like Gaganendranath Tagore. I was also influenced by German Expressionism that linked art to life. The effects I create are intentional and I want them to become a part of visual experience, he says.
He mostly works in oil on canvas, because as he says, That’s the medium which let’s me experiment the most and which helps me to depict modern life, which in some ways is surrealistic.
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