Samir Mondal's most amazing contribution to Indian art of modern times is a continual revival of watercolor. He has endowed water colors with the status of oils, projecting a facet of watercolor that was never visualized before. The artist keenly observed the characteristics of oil-painting, noted the inherent quality of oils, their richness and substance. In his endeavour to include these elements in watercolor, he developed textures and structural featur ...