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BEGINNINGS
He was born in Calcutta, West Bengal.
Born in an aristocratic family, he was richly endowed with literary and artistic talent.
Abanindranath was among the first Indian artists to address issues of culture specificity and modernism.
He began his career in the emergent years of Swadeshi movement and was an apologist for nationalist revivalist art.
The fame of Abanindranath as the reviver of Indian tradition and founder of a new movement, is in no way less than that of Abanindranath, the artist.
He made a name in literature long before he established his fame in art.
He studied the canons of aesthetics and had written on `Sadanga`.
1907 Established Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta.
And he wrote books like Bharata-Silpa Parichaya; Sakuntala (1895); Raj-Kahini (1905); Kshirer Putul; Bhupatir Desh (1915); Nalaka (1916); Banglar Brata (1919); Bageswari Lectures on Art (1919); Khajanchir khata (1921); Budo Angla (1941) etc.
He also wrote jatras (folk dramas of Bengal).
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EDUCATION
EXHIBITIONS
COLLECTION
STYLE
In the paintings of Abanindranath we for the first time discover an aesthetic quality rare in contemporary works. He retained a realistic base and modified it with selective assimilations of Mughal, Japanese and Persian elements. Style is the chief attraction in Abanindranath`s literary as well as pictorial compositions; the most important point in them being, how he tells in the one and how he shows in the other. He mainly used the wash technique. Colours are flat with suggestion of space finished with line.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1905-15 Taught at the Govt. School of Art and Craft, Calcutta.