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Oct 15, 2018 · The Art of Rabindranath Tagore. B orn in Calcutta into a wealthy Brahmo family, Rabindranath Tagore went on to become one of the most revered poet-philosophers of his time. In 1913, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first non-Westerner to be honoured with the award. A poet, author, playwright and artist, Tagore's creative ...
The Last Harvest: Paintings of Rabindranath Tagore. There is no bigger cultural icon in India and Bangladesh than Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941). A renowned novelist, poet, musician, and philosopher—the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913—Tagore is responsible for shaping the modern Indian identity ...
May 7, 1861 - Aug 7, 1941. Rabindranath Tagore FRAS was an Indian polymath – poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941) is best known as a poet, and in 1913 was the first non-European writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Highly prolific, Tagore was also a composer – he wrote the national anthems for both India and Bangladesh – as well as an educator, social reformer, philosopher and painter.
Tagore’s emergence as a painter began in 1928 when he was 67 years old. Beginning with scratchings and erasures on the pages of his manuscripts during the mid-20s of the 20th Century, he slowly moved towards drawing and painting independent images. Between 1928 and 1940, Rabindranath painted more than 2000 images.
May 7, 2020 · The first time Jamini Roy met Rabindranath Tagore, on “a magical evening in Allahabad”, the young Roy was left speechless – it seemed like ‘Jesus standing outside the closed door’; recounts art historian Sandip Sarkar, in his book about Jamini. The painter from Bankura who painted both for the masses and classes was not always known for his signature almond-eyed portraits that are a ...
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Aug 26, 2014 · As a teenager in Bengal in the 1870s, Rabindranath Tagore doodled with dexterity, and much later, in 1893, did some pencil sketches as part of a Tagore family prank. “Unlike much of his later work some of these [were] brilliant miniatures and a marvel of accurate draughtsmanship,” wrote the Bengali art critic, Kshitis Roy.
