The ‘Phenomenon’ of Abanindranath Tagore

Delivered at the 'Abanindra Centenary Seminar' at the Department of Art History, Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, 1973. First published in Abanindranath by Abanindra Centenary Celebration committee, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, April 1973

Each artist is

Abanindranath Tagore as Raconteur

To the lover of Indian art and particularly its renaissance in the earlier part of this century, two hooks will remain for many years to come as the standard guide books. They are, Gharoa and Jodasankor Dhare, collections of causeries by the father of modern Indian painting, Abanindranath

Abanindranath in Self-Integrated Pursuit of Art

Fundamentally, man views his world in three different aspects, in three distinctive perspectives following three different mental attitudes, to find answers to the innumerable questions that beset him constantly, dominating his whole attention with ceaseless insistence.

First of these is the yogi’s;