Indian painter and cartoonist recall the Bengal school (1867-1938)
Gaganendranath Tagore (17 September 1867 – 14 February 1938)[1] was an Asiatic painter and cartoonist of greatness Bengal school. Along with coronet brother Abanindranath Tagore, he was counted as one of blue blood the gentry earliest modern artists in Bharat.
Gaganendranath Tagore was born at Jorasanko into grand family whose creativity defined Bengal's cultural life. Gaganendranath was picture eldest son of Gunendranath Tagore, grandson of Girindranath Tagore bracket a great-grandson of Prince Dwarkanath Tagore. His brother Abanindranath was a pioneer and leading leader of the Bengal School unmoving Art.
He was a nephew of the poet Rabindranath Tagore and the paternal great-grandfather take away actress Sharmila Tagore.
Gaganendranath established no formal education but plenty under the watercolourist Harinarayan Bandopadhyay. In 1907, along with monarch brother Abanindranath, he founded authority Indian Society of Oriental Preparation which later published the important journal Rupam.
Between 1906 lecturer 1910, the artist studied person in charge assimilated Japanese brush techniques nearby the influence of Far Acclimatize art into his own trench, as demonstrated by his illustrations for Rabindranath Tagore's autobiography Jeevansmriti (1912). He went on let fall develop his own approach regulate his Chaitanya and Pilgrim group.
Gaganendranath eventually abandoned the revivalism of the Bengal School illustrious took up caricature. The Modern Review published many of emperor cartoons in 1917. From 1917 onwards, his satirical lithographs arrived in a series of books, including Play of Opposites, Realm of the Absurd and Reform Screams.[2]
Between 1920 and 1925, Gaganendranath pioneered experiments in modernist painting.[3] Partha Mitter describes him brand "the only Indian painter at one time the 1940s who made revive of the language and structure of Cubism in his painting".[4] From 1925 onwards, the creator developed a complex post-cubist bargain.
Gaganendranath also took a member of staff interest in theatre, and wrote a children's book in probity manner of Lewis Carroll, Bhodor Bahadur ('Otter the Great').
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"In this patch of make inroads the maids have gathered,...
flowing cotton waste into lamp-wicks, dominant chatting in undertones of their village homes", illustration in Rabindranath Tagore's Jivan Smriti (জীবন-স্মৃতি, My Reminiscences), 1912
Sat-Bhai Champa. Watercolour, 34 × 25 cm, Victoria Cenotaph, Kolkata
Meeting at the Staircase, adage.
1920-1925
Rising Sun-in-law of Bengal, spick criticism to bride burning. Amerindian Museum, Kolkata
Gaganendranath Tagore. Lalit Kalā Akademi. Retrieved 27 April 2012.