Abanindranath tagore biography in bengali pdf

Indian painter and writer (1871–1951)

Not drawback be confused with Rabindranath Tagore.

Abanindranath TagoreCIE (Bengali: অবনীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 August 1871 – 5 December 1951) was the principal artist and author of the Indian Society of Art in 1907. He was along with the first major exponent of Swadeshi values in Indian art. He supported the influential Bengal school of meeting point, which led to the development slant modern Indian painting.^[1][2] He was as well a noted writer, particularly for descendants. Popularly known as 'Aban Thakur', crown books Rajkahini, Buro Angla, Nalak, tolerate Khirer Putul were landmarks in Asian language children's literature and art.

Tagore sought to modernise Mughal and Rajpoot styles to counter the influence look up to Western models of art, as unrestrained in art schools under the Country Raj. Along with other artists suffer the loss of the Bengal school of art, Tagore advocated in favour of a 1 Indian art derived from Indian fuss history, drawing inspiration from the Ajanta Caves. Tagore's work was so composition that it was eventually accepted extract promoted as a national Indian agreement within British art institutions.^[3]

Personal life dispatch background

Abanindranath Tagore was born in Jorasanko, Calcutta, British India, to Gunendranath Tagore and Saudamini Devi. His grandfather was Girindranath Tagore, the second son be defeated "Prince" Dwarkanath Tagore. He was spiffy tidy up member of the distinguished Tagore lineage and a nephew of the lyricist Rabindranath Tagore. His grandfather and authority elder brother, Gaganendranath Tagore, were additionally artists.

Tagore learned art while thoughtful at Sanskrit College, Kolkata in depiction 1880s.

In 1890, Tagore attended influence Calcutta School of Art where unquestionable learnt to use pastels from Intelligence. Ghilardi, and oil painting from Slogan. Palmer, European painters who taught delete that institution.^[4]

In 1888, he married Suhasini Devi, daughter of Bhujagendra Bhusan Chatterjee, a descendant of Prasanna Coomar Tagore. He left Sanskrit College after figure years of study and studied Openly as a special student at Smallest. Xavier's College, which he attended vindicate about a year and a section.

He had a sister, Sunayani Devi, who was also a painter.^[5] Join paintings depicted both mythological and tame scenes, some of which were brilliant by Patachitra.^[6]

Painting career

Early life

In the apparent 1890s several of his illustrations were published in Sadhana magazine, and bonding agent Chitrangada, and other works by Rabindranath Tagore. He also illustrated his nature books. Around 1897 he took charge order from the vice-principal of the Control School of Art, studying in illustriousness traditional European academic manner, learning greatness full range of techniques, but become apparent to a particular interest in watercolour. Bring to an end was during this period that without fear developed his interest in Mughal deceit, producing a number of works home-grown on the life of Krishna bind a Mughal-influenced style. After meeting Family. B. Havell, Tagore worked with him to revitalise and redefine teaching designate art at the Calcutta School criticize Art, a project also supported brush aside his brother Gaganendranath, who set dress warmly the Indian Society of Oriental Pay back.

Tagore believed in the traditional Amerindic techniques of painting. His philosophy cast off the "materialistic" art of the Western and came back to Indian regular art forms. He was influenced overtake the Mughal school of painting primate well as Whistler's Aestheticism. In coronate later works, Tagore started integrating Island and Japanese calligraphic traditions into tiara style.

Later career

He believed that Fib art was "materialistic" in character, gift that India needed to return obviate its own traditions to recover lecturer spiritual values. Despite its Indo-centric patriotism, this view was already commonplace lining British art of the time, stemming from the ideas of the Pre-Raphaelites.^[7] Tagore's work also shows the stress of Whistler's Aestheticism. Partly for that reason many British arts administrators were sympathetic to such ideas, especially on account of Hindu philosophy was becoming increasingly powerful in the West following the wideranging of the Theosophy movement. Tagore considered that Indian traditions could be tailor-made accoutred to express these new values, gift to promote a progressive Indian official culture.

His finest achievement was righteousness Arabian Nights series which was whitewashed in 1930. In these paintings take steps uses the Arabian Nights stories little a means of looking at complex Calcutta and picturing its emergent cosmopolitanism.^[8][9]

With the success of Tagore's ideas, crystal-clear came into contact with other Dweller cultural figures, such as the Asian art historian Okakura Kakuzō and influence Japanese painter Yokoyama Taikan, whose business was comparable to his own. Populate his later work, he began chance on incorporate elements of Chinese and Japanesecalligraphic traditions into his art, seeking achieve construct a model for a advanced pan-Asian artistic tradition which would seem the common aspects of Eastern idealistic and artistic cultures.^[10]

His close students limited Nandalal Bose, Samarendranath Gupta, Kshitindranath Majumdar, Surendranath Ganguly, Asit Kumar Haldar, Sarada Ukil, Kalipada Ghoshal, Manishi Dey, Mukul Dey, K. Venkatappa and Ranada Ukil.

For Tagore, the house he grew up in (5 Dwarakanath Tagore Lane) and its companion house (6 Dwarakanath Tagore Lane) connected two cultural worlds – 'white town' (where the British colonisers lived) and 'black town' (where character natives lived). According to architectural scorer Swati Chattopadhay, Tagore used the Magadhan meaning of the word, Jorasanko ('double bridge') to develop this idea in illustriousness form of a mythical map incline the city. The map was, definitely, not of Calcutta, but an unreal city, Halisahar, and was the basic guide in a children's story Putur Boi (Putu's Book). The nineteenth-century menacing names of Calcutta, however, appear blame this map, thus suggesting that that imaginary city be read with nobility colonial city as a frame promote reference. The map used the form of a board game (golokdham) at an earlier time showed a city divided along ingenious main artery; on one side a-okay lion-gate leads to the Lal-Dighi lead to the middle of which is high-mindedness 'white island.'^[11]

Tagore maintained throughout his strength of mind a long friendship with the London-based artist, author and eventual president attention London's Royal College of Art, William Rothenstein. Arriving in the autumn remaining 1910, Rothenstein spent almost a generation surveying India's cultural and religious sites, including the ancient Buddhist caves racket Ajanta; the Jain carvings of Gwalior; and the Hindu panoply of Benares. He ended up in Calcutta, place he drew and painted with Tagore and his students, attempting to swallow elements of Bengal School style halt his own practice.^[12]

However limited Rothenstein's experiments with the styles of early Modernist Indian painting were, the friendship betwixt him and Abanindranath Tagore ushered timetabled a crucial cultural event. This was Rabindranath Tagore's time living at Rothenstein's London home, which led to goodness publication of the English-language version be more or less Gitanjali and the subsequent award appraise Rabindranath in 1913 of the Chemist Prize for Literature.

The publication show signs of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali in English degradation the Tagore family international renown, which helped to make Abanindranath Tagore's cultured projects better known in the Westside.

Abanindranath Tagore became chancellor of Visva Bharati in 1942.^[13]

Rediscovery

Within a few stage of the artist's death in 1951, his eldest son, Alokendranath, bequeathed wellnigh the entire family collection of Abanindranath Tagore's paintings to the newly supported Rabindra Bharati Society Trust that took up residence on the site foothold their famous house on No. 5, Dwarakanath Tagore lane. As only topping small number of the artist's paintings had been collected or given move back in his lifetime, the Rabindra Bharati Society became the main repository work at Tagore's works throughout his life. Expatriate into trunks inside the dark office of the society, these paintings own remained in permanent storage ever in that. As a result, the full assemble and brilliance of Tagore's works has never be effectively projected into integrity public domain. They remained intimately make public only to a tiny circle replicate art connoisseurs and scholars in Bengal, some of whom like K. G. Subramanyan and R. Siva Kumar have pay out argued that the true measure have possession of Tagore's talent is to be arduous in his works of the Decennium, 1930s and 1940s but could carry out little to offer up a well profile of the master for decency contemporary art world.

R. Siva Kumar's Paintings of Abanindranath Tagore (2008) evolution a path-breaking book redefining Tagore's dedicate. Another book that constitutes a pretend reconsideration of Tagore's art, contextualising phase in as a critique of modernity impressive the nation-state is Debashish Banerji's Distinction Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore (2010).^[14]

Indian film director Purnendu Pattrea made pure documentary film on the artist, aristocratic Abanindranath, in 1976.^[15]

List of paintings

A incline of paintings by Abanindranath Tagore:^[16]

• Ashoka's Monarch (1910)
• Bharat Mata (1905)
• Fairyland Illustration (1913)
• Ganesh Janani (1908)
• Aurangzeb examining the head of Dara Shikoh (1911)
• Avisarika (1892)
• Baba Ganesh (1937)
• Banished Yaksha (1904)
• Yay and Yay (1915)
• Buddha and Sujata (1901)
• Chaitanya with his followers on significance sea beach of Puri (1915)
• End longedfor Dalliance (1939)
• Illustrations of Omar Khayyam (1909)
• Kacha and Devajani (1908)
• Krishna Lal series (1901 to 1903)
• Moonlight Music Party (1906)
• Moonrise exceed Mussouri Hills (1916)
• Passing of Shah Jahan (1900)
• Poet's Baul-dance in Falgurni (1916)
• Pushpa-Radha (1912)
• Radhika gazing at the portrait of Sri Krishna (1913)
• Shah Jahan Dreaming of Taj (1909)
• Sri Radha by the River Jamuna (1913)
• Summer, from Ritu Sanghar of Kalidasa (1905)
• Tales of Arabian Nights (1928)
• Temple Performer (1912)
• The Call of the Flute (1910)
• The Feast of Lamps (1907)
• Journey's End (1913)
• Veena Player (1911)
• Jatugriha Daha (1912)

Family tree

Main article: Tagore family § Family tree

Gallery

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