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A year-long celebration marking 150 years of Abanindranath Tagore will start soon, with a host of online workshops and talks paying tributes to the leading light of the Bengal School of Art.
About Abanindranath Tagore
- He was the nephew of Rabindranath Tagore, born in Calcutta on 7 August 1871.
- He is hailed as one of the greatest icons of Indian modern art.
- Interest Areas :
- He painted a range of subjects. He had a leaning towards painting images with historic or literary allusions.
- He liked to paint sets of images dealing with a theme or a text such as the ‘Arabian Nights’ or the ‘Krishna Leela’.
- He also enjoyed painting theatrical subjects. Literature and drama held great respect for him and he was an elegant and accomplished writer.
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Major Contributions
- He established the Indian Society of Oriental Art and brought in the idea of ‘Swadeshi‘ in Indian art.
- His idea of modernizing Mughal and Rajput paintings eventually gave rise to modern Indian painting, which took birth at his Bengal school of art.
- It aims to counter the English influence on Indian artists.
- A proficient and accomplished writer :
- He is also regarded as a proficient and accomplished writer. Most of his literary works were meant for children.
- He was also a published writer of children’s books. Several of his works like Budo Angla, Khirer Putul, Shakuntala and Rajkahini are considered Bengali children’s classics.
- Bases of works :
- His works were primarily based on literary and historical iconographies.
- A classic example is found in his painting of “Bharat-Mata” (1905), originally conceived by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay as “Banga Mata”.
- His paintings reflected a medley of the influences of the Japanese ‘wash’ style and Chinese ink painting; English pre-Raphaelite and Art-Nouveau trends, and also Mughal and Rajput miniature paintings
- Some of his most famous paintings include Shahjadpur Landscape, Ullapara Station, Alamgir, Passing of Shah Jahan, among others.
- His works were primarily based on literary and historical iconographies.
Rabindranath Tagore
Contributions made- He released his first collection of poems under the pen name ‘Bhanusimha’ at 16 years of age.
Awards– In 1913, he became the first Indian to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel ‘Geetanjali’. Bengal School of Art
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Source: TH
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