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Gaganendranath Tagore | Biography | Life | Paintings Gaganendranath Tagore, eldest brother of Abanindranath Tagore, was only seventeen years of age when his father died, leaving five minor children. As the eldest male child of the family, Gaganendranath had to shoulder enormous responsibility. Although as a young student he had briefly learnt drawing under…
Rabindranath Tagore | Life | Biography | artworks Although the creative talent of the great poet Rabindranath Tagore till the late nineteenth century; flowed mainly along the channels of literature, music, and drama, he dabbled in painting from about 1893, emerging as a creative exponent of graphic art in 1928, at the ‘improbable’ age…
Nandalal Bose | Biography | Life | Paintings Even as a young student at the Khudiram Bose’s Central Collegiate School, Calcutta, Nandalal Bose made sketches and copies from reproductions of paintings including those of Raphael and Ravi Varma. He enrolled at the Calcutta School of Art in 1905 and received his training under Abanindranath,…
Abanindranath Tagore | Biography | Life | Artworks Abanindranath Tagore the great-grandson of Prince Dwarkanath Tagore, questioned the validity of adopting the Western stylistic norm as the only viable one. Like Ravi Varma, he too belonged to the rich aristocratic class of the landlords. The development of the Bengal School is closely linked with the…
Jamini Roy | Biography | Life | Paintings As early as the 1930s, Jamini Roy had anticipated the current vogue amongst the artists to draw upon folk-art in fashioning artwork. He attempted to create a distinct indigenous style in seeking inspiration from folk-art traditions as against the elitist approach of the Bengal School. He…
Amrita Sher-Gil | Biography | Life | Paintings Amrita Sher-Gil was born of a Hungarian mother and a Sikh father. Amrita started drawing and painting in watercolors from the age of five, mainly illustrating Hungarian fairy tales. At the age of eight, Amrita started lessons in art from one Major Whit marsh….
A R Chughtai | Biography | Life | Paintings The last artist of the Chughtai family, Mohd. Abdul Rehman Chughtai, who lived in Lahore, was the direct descendent of Ustad Ahmed, the chief architect of Emperor Shahjahan and designer of the Jama Masjid and the Red Fort in Delhi and the Taj Mahal of…
Zainul Abedin | Biography | Life | Paintings According to Nazrul Islam, the great revolutionary poet of Bengal, the significance of Silpachmya Zainul Abedin lies not just in the value of his art, but also in his pioneering work in the development of modern art in the country. A sensitive artist of enormous power,…
George Keyt | Biography | Life George Keyt was the most significant painter from Sri Lanka, (formerly Ceylon), during the period of British rule over the Indian subcontinent. After completing his early studies at an English public school, Keyt immersed himself in Buddhist philosophy and literature at the Malvatte Vihare. He studied Sanskrit and was…
What is Art — An Introduction (Indian Context) Art is a technique to complete work in a particular manner to get the best result. A person gets the artistic or aesthetic sense from nature. So, art and artistic sense in human being is natural or God-gifted. This sense can be observed in all…
