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The Bengal School of Art, commonly referred as Bengal School, [1] was an art movement and a style of Indian painting that originated in Bengal, primarily Kolkata and Shantiniketan, and flourished throughout the Indian subcontinent, during the British Raj in the early 20th century. Also known as 'Indian style of painting' in its early days, it ...
Shantiniketan is a neighbourhood of Bolpur town in the Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum district in West Bengal, India, approximately 152 km north of Kolkata. It was established by Maharshi Devendranath Tagore , and later expanded by his son, Rabindranath Tagore whose vision became what is now a university town with the creation of Visva-Bharati .
Established. 1919. Website. Kala Bhavan official website. Kala Bhavana (Institute of Fine Arts) is the fine arts faculty of Visva-Bharati University, in Shantiniketan, India. It is an institution of education and research in visual arts, founded in 1919, it was established by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore .
Visva-Bharati ( IAST: Viśva-Bhāratī ), ( Bengali: [biʃːɔbʱaroti]) is a public central university and an Institute of National Importance located in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India. It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it Visva-Bharati, which means the communion of the world with India.
noted painter and Padma Vibhushan award winner, was a student of Kala Bhavana and later came back to teach at Santiniketan. [45] Beohar Rammanohar Sinha. the renowned artist and illustrator of the Indian constitution, was a student at Kala Bhavana and later also associated actively. [46] [47] Dinkar Kaushik.
Tagore, in the process, founded the Bengal School of Art, an art movement that originated primarily in Kolkata and Shantiniketan, but flourished throughout the Indian subcontinent, eventually associating itself with Indian nationalism . The Bengal School is widely considered to have helped pave the way for modern art in India.
Patha Bhavana is an institution of primary and secondary education in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India.Founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in 1901, starting with only five students, the school is characterized by its philosophy of learning with the heart in closeness to nature without any superficial barriers between teachers and students, as opposed to the strict, repetitive and the ...
From August 15, 1905 to 1915, Abanindranath Tagore was the Vice-Principal of the college, and worked towards developing an Indian style of Art, which gave birth to the Bengal school of art, an agenda that was to be pursued at the Kala Bhavan, Shantiniketan. Mukul Dey as principal. On July 11, 1928 Mukul Chandra Dey became the principal.