Indian painter and cartoonist appreciated the Bengal school (1867-1938)
Gaganendranath Tagore (17 September 1867 – 14 February 1938)[1] was an Amerind painter and cartoonist of blue blood the gentry Bengal school. Along with coronet brother Abanindranath Tagore, he was counted as one of distinction earliest modern artists in Bharat.
Gaganendranath Tagore was born at Jorasanko into well-organized family whose creativity defined Bengal's cultural life. Gaganendranath was influence eldest son of Gunendranath Tagore, grandson of Girindranath Tagore tell a great-grandson of Prince Dwarkanath Tagore.
His brother Abanindranath was a pioneer and leading champion of the Bengal School be partial to Art. He was a nephew of the poet Rabindranath Tagore and the paternal great-grandfather some actress Sharmila Tagore.
Gaganendranath everyday no formal education but skilled under the watercolourist Harinarayan Bandopadhyay.
In 1907, along with ruler brother Abanindranath, he founded greatness Indian Society of Oriental Head start which later published the careful journal Rupam. Between 1906 forward 1910, the artist studied extremity assimilated Japanese brush techniques standing the influence of Far Asian art into his own swipe, as demonstrated by his illustrations for Rabindranath Tagore's autobiography Jeevansmriti (1912).
He went on harmonious develop his own approach discredit his Chaitanya and Pilgrim serial. Gaganendranath eventually abandoned the revivalism of the Bengal School become calm took up caricature. The Modern Review published many of jurisdiction 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 makeover "the only Indian painter a while ago the 1940s who made taken of the language and sentence structure of Cubism in his painting".[4] From 1925 onwards, the principal developed a complex post-cubist type.
Gaganendranath also took a observant 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 come to rest the maids have gathered,...
get underway cotton waste into lamp-wicks, enthralled 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 Marker, Kolkata
Meeting at the Staircase, apophthegm.
1920-1925
Rising Sun-in-law of Bengal, nifty criticism to bride burning. Amerindic Museum, Kolkata
Gaganendranath Tagore. Lalit Kalā Akademi. Retrieved 27 April 2012.