Meera Mukherjee was an Indian sculptor and writer, known for bringing modernity to the ancient Bengali sculpting art.
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Meera Mukherjee is known to have used innovative bronze casting techniques, improving the Dhokra method employing Lost-wax casting, which she learnt during her training days of the Bastar sculpting tradition of Chhattisgarh.
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Meera Mukherjee received the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri from the Government of India in 1992 for her contributions to Arts.
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Meera Mukherjee, born in Kolkata to Dwijendramohan Mukherjee and Binapani Devi in 1923, had her initial training in Arts at the Indian Society of Oriental Art of Abanindranath Tagore where she stayed till her marriage in 1941.
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Meera Mukherjee returned to India in 1957 and took up the job as an art teacher at Dowhill School, Kurseong where she stayed till 1959.
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Meera Mukherjee was on a quest to discover the confluence of art forms with the daily lives of the artisans.
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The research and documentation carried out by Meera Mukherjee gradually turned her into an 'artist-anthropologist'.
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Meera Mukherjee began incorporating the folk-art techniques into her own work.
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Meera Mukherjee had asked Meera to find inspiration for her art not in Europe, but in the local traditions of her own country.
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Meera Mukherjee trained in Dhokra casting technique under the tribal artisans of Bastar of Chhattisgarh.
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Meera Mukherjee's works have featured in many international auctions such as that of Christie's and Invaluable.
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Meera Mukherjee published one monograph, Metal Craft in India in 1978, and two books on the traditional metal craft in India namely Metal Craftsmen in India in 1979 and In Search of Viswakarma in 1994.
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Meera Mukherjee received the Press Award for the Master Craftsman, in 1968, from the President of India.
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Meera Mukherjee held the fellowship from the Ministry of Culture from 1984 to 1986.