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While in Japan in 1916, Mukul Dey studied under Yokoyama Taikan and Kanzan Shimomura at Tokyo and Yokohama. At Yokohama Rabindranath Tagore and Mukul Dey lived as guests of Japanese silk-merchant Tomitaro Hara at his famous residential complex Sankeien, enjoying a rare opportunity to study classical Chinese and Nihonga style Japanese paintings.
Mukul Dey was an influential Indian painter and printmaker known for his significant contributions to the Bengal School of Art, which emerged in the early 20th century as a response to colonial influences on Indian culture.
Mukul Chandra Dey, shortly known as Mukul Dey was a pioneer of drypoint-etching in India in the 20 th century. He was the first Indian to travel abroad for the purpose of studying printmaking as an art.
He was a student at Rabindranath Tagore’s experimental education project in Santiniketan at the very beginning of the twentieth century, when it was still. through his curricular initiatives and by virtue of the fact that his own career trajectory provided students with an instructive model for them to follow (or rebel against).
Mukul Chandra Dey got his initial lessons in Japan from stalwarts in the world of art Yokoyama Taikan and Kanzan Shimomura. Both Rabindranath Tagore and Mukul Chandra Dey stayed in Yokohama as the guests of the famous silk merchant Tomitaro Hara.
But Mukul Chandra Dey (1895-1989) offers a particularly useful case study when thinking about the autobiographical Bengali artist. First and most obviously, the narrative trajectory of Dey’s own life intersects and engages with an incredibly rich cultural history of late colonial Bengal.
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Mukul Chandra Dey. (1895 - 1989) Born in 1895, in Kolkata, Mukul Dey began schooling under the guidance of Rabindranath Tagore in 1905, in Santiniketan. He proceeded to study art informally under Abanindranath Tagore and Gaganendranath Tagore.
