The Santiniketan School of Art

First published in Viswa Bharti Quarterly, 1935.

What is known as the Neo-Bengal or Tagore School of Modern Art [1] has undergone considerable change in the course of the last few years. This change is so directly related to Rabindranath's Institution at Santiniketan, in particular to the Arts

My experiments with murals

When I started to learn painting I had only my ideas and thoughts to depend on. I hardly knew of the importance of experiments. Fortunately our teacher Acharya Nandalal Bose was quite keen on technical experiments. It was with his encouragement that we made our first attempts to do a mural on the wall

Abanindranath Tagore & Nandalal Bose

Abanindranath Tagore

During the last quarter of the nineteenth century when the elite of the Indian society were fully under the spell of Western art, Raja Ravi Varma was acclaimed to be the unrivalled painter of the country. It was at that time Abanindranath’s training as an artist started under

The Art of Abanindranath Tagore

The only way to know Abanindranath, the artist, is to see his pictures. The other role that he plays in the history of modern Indian painting is that of the founder of a new movement. In this light his position is historically significant. The fame of Abanindranath as the reviver of Indian tradition