About famous Artists.

1. First ModernArtist of India
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•Born- Calcutta
•Education- Et Teaching Experience
•1890s- Private Tutors: Olinto Gilhardi EtCharles Palmer.
•1905- Yokoyama Taikan tutored him onJapanese brushwork.
•1905-15 - GCACEstablished ISOA. Founder of TheBengal
School.
Selected Exhibitions
•1900- GCAC Exhb. (Lord Curzon Inauguratedthe Exhb.].
•1901-02 - "Congress Industrial Exhb., Calcutta (Awarded Gold
Medal),“
•1911- Festival of Empire, Crystal Palace.England (Organised by
ISOA forGeorge V's Coronation).
•1914- 22nd Exhb. of Societe des peintres orientalistes francais,
Grand Palais. Paris. Travelling to Belgium, Holland and
Imperial Institute, England.
•1915-16 - ISOA Exhb. Calcutta Et Young Men's Indian
Association, Madras.

3. Basic Profile AbanindranathTagore
Skills Painting; Sculptureand
writing
Painting Method Basically water color wash
painting; pencil;Oil paint and
Pastel
PaintingSurface Paper; wood
PaintingStyle Had imaginative and personal
sensibility
PresentedBy: NehaKestwal;(MDS/14/33) 3

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• WonanawardattheDelhiDurbar1903
•Painting done in oil on wood, isa
remarkableadaptation of miniaturescale,
with all its exquisiteworkmanship and
attention tometiculousdetail.
•Hereemphasisisondeepfeeling rather
thanontactility andtextureof form.
Thefinal moment ofShah Jahan
1902
Oil color
•Image isimaginative.
•Swadeshi movement in 1905and
partitionof Bengalwasthereason for
developmentof thispainting.
•First named BangaMata.
•Actasamobilizingartifactfor Indians
during anti-partition process.