Nandalal Bose was born in Bihar in 1882 who trained under Abanindranath Tagore and along with painting, learnt from him the technique of teaching art as a subject. He joined the Government Art College, Calcutta in 1905 and then went to Santiniketan in 1914. He was handpicked by Rabindranath Tagore to teach at the Kala Bhavan in Santiniketan.

Nandalal Bose worked with various mediums such as water colour, wash, tempera, wood-cut, lithograph, dry-point, pencil-sketch, pastels, batik on cloth, Italian fresco and Ajanta style fresco. Besides learning from European art and drawing upon indigenous sources for his artistic expression, Nandalal also imbibed the wash technique used by Japanese artists. He is mostly known for his wash works, pen and ink drawings and frescoes.

Nandalal Bose passed away on 16 April 1966.

WORK

Untitled
by Nandalal Bose
1954

ESSAYS

A Primer on Art Education

by Nandalal Bose

The six canons of art which guided and inspired the artists of ancient India were formulated in a condensed form in the following Sanskrit Sloka:

Rupabheda pramana bhavalavanyayojanam sadrisya varnikabhanga iti chitra sadangam.

In brief the sloka means that Sadanga, the six

Rabindranath's Art

by Nandalal Bose

Nandalal Bose writes in The Visva-Bharati Quarterly:

Rabindranath was all his life a deeply observant student of Nature in all its aspects and moods. To catch the abstract spirit hidden behind forms was with him an easy process. Whenever he would sit down to paint anything, the abstract idea

On Tagore’s Art

by Nandalal Bose

Those who have read the introductory poem in Chhada will have some idea as to how stray thoughts come floating into the mind, all disconnected, and how an idea would link them together and how the whole things would then assume the chhada form- stray thoughts lightly strung together and

Nandalal Bose

A Primer on Art Education

Rabindranath's Art

On Tagore’s Art

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