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Abanindranath Tagore was born in Jorasanko, Calcutta, British India, to Gunendranath Tagore and Saudamini Devi.His grandfather was Girindranath Tagore, the second son of "Prince" Dwarkanath Tagore. He was a member of the distinguished Tagore family and a nephew of the poet Rabindranath Tagore.His grandfather and his elder brother, Gaganendranath Tagore, were also artists. Tagore learned art while studying at Sanskrit College, Kolkata in the 1880s.. In 1890, Tagore attended the Calcutta ...
Abanindranath Tagore. First Indian artist to gain international recognition, Abanindranath Tagore was the principal artist and creator of 'Indian Society of Oriental Art' and the first major exponent of swadeshi values in Indian art, thereby founding the influential Bengal school of art. He was also a noted writer, particularly for children.
Abanindranath Tagore (1871-1951), infused this spirit of swadeshi in his paintings. He was the principal artist and creator of the ‘Indian Society of Oriental Art’ and the first major exponent of Swadeshi values in Indian art. It created a new awakening and heralded a revival of Indian art. However, a striking aspect was that, in total ...
Apr 21, 2022 · Belonging to the influential Tagore family of Jorasanko, Calcutta (now Kolkata), Abanindranath Tagore emerged as an artist and writer at a time of great political and cultural upheaval in nineteenth-century India. He is credited with the first formal response to European artistic and aesthetic conventions and values, founding and spearheading ...
Though Abanindranath Tagore started painting at a young age, his career took shape in the late 1890s. Most of his works revolved around Hindu philosophy and other things Indian. In the year 1930, he came up with a series of paintings titled ‘Arabian Nights’. The paintings depicted Calcutta’s emerging cosmopolitanism but used the stories from Arabian Nights as its trope. Even today, this collection of paintings is considered as one of the finest achievements of Abanindranath Tagore.
Abanindranath Tagore CIE was the principal artist and creator of the "Indian Society of Oriental Art". He was also the first major exponent of Swadeshi values in Indian art, thereby finding the influential Bengal school of art, which led to the development of modern Indian painting. He was also a noted writer, particularly for children.
Abanindranath Tagore. By Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata. The Victoria Memorial. Hall is proud to present this major exhibition of paintings of the great. master Abanindranath Tagore (1871-1951), the foundational figure of the Bengal. school of Art, and widely hailed as the 'Father of Modern Indian Art'. Curated.
Paintings of Abanindranath Tagore is a book on Abanindranath Tagore's paintings by art historian R. Siva Kumar. It is widely considered as a landmark book in the Indian art scene that brings together a large corpus of Abanindranath's work for the first time. It fulfils a glaring lacuna in the picture of this master of modern Indian art.
Born on the 7th of August 1871 at Jorasanko, the family residence of the Tagores, Abanindranath was the son of artist Gunendranath Tagore. Abanindranath was educated at the Sanskrit College, Kolkata. At the age of 20 he stumbled upon an album of Mughal and Pahari miniatures and was greatly influenced by the fine decorative lines, vibrant colors and the power behind the canvas. Abanindranath wasn't a trained painter; all his creations...
Painting, Himalayan landscape, by Abanindranath Tagore, watercolour on postcard, India, probably 1920. Physical description. Painting, a landscape in grey-blue and green-brown tones with mountains in the background and trees in the foreground. The painting is executed in a wash technique which makes the mountain and tree forms fairly indistinct ...
