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Abanindranath Tagore
Accession No . 82
Artist Name. Abanindranath Tagore
Title. Evening
Medium. Pastel on Board
Size. 8.75" x 11.75"
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Leader of the Revivalist Movement in the field of Modern Indian Painting in Bengal, Abanindranath Tagore is also credited with a key contribution towards ushering in the renaissance in Indian painting.Abanindranath's inner urge for liberating Indian art was further inspired by Okakura, a great Japanese artist and art-critic who came to India with Swami Vivekananda. His work has a great delicacy of feeling, unity of concept, a highly sensitive range of color, tone, texture and poetic depth. His work was a mixture of traditionalism and innovation. He aimed at comparing nature in its transient forms and produce an image part object, part sensuous, both transposed into each other. But his vision on nature was always poetic, as was his personal form of expression. According to artist Benodebehari Mukherjee, who compiled a rough chronology of Abanindranath's paintings, the artist painted a series of animal life images between 1915 and 1916. This painting is done in clear, bright colours.
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