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Nandalal Bose
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Born in Bihar in 1882, Nandalal Bose was one of India's leading artists of the 20th century and was closely associated with the Bengal School. Bose was among the few who sought to reinvigorate Indian art by rooting it in Indian tradition, shunning the overarching Western academic approach to art that prevailed at the time. He trained under Abanindranath Tagore at the Calcutta School of Art in 1905 and forged a lasting friendship with him....
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Born in Bihar in 1882, Nandalal Bose was one of India's leading artists of the 20th century and was closely associated with the Bengal School. Bose was among the few who sought to reinvigorate Indian art by rooting it in Indian tradition, shunning the overarching Western academic approach to art that prevailed at the time. He trained under Abanindranath Tagore at the Calcutta School of Art in 1905 and forged a lasting friendship with him. Abanindranath later invited him to work at Jorasanko, where he came in contact with A K Coomaraswamy, Rabindranath Tagore, and Count Okakura.
An impeccable draughtsman, Bose explored media like linocuts, woodcuts, dry point, etching and lithography beyond their commercial possibilities. His close affiliation with the Bengal School led him to explore art techniques from the Far East and he leveraged them to resonate with an Indian ethos. In 1920, he joined Kala Bhavan at Shantiniketan as a teacher, and taught many notable Indian Modernists, including K G Subramanyan.
In addition to imbibing European indigenous traditions in his artistic expression, Nandalal also worked in the wash technique used by Japanese artists. These gave rise to a series of wash paintings that transformed the simple objects of everyday life into tools of powerful artistic expression.
Among the most well-known works of the master are the Haripura panel paintings. A series of 77 panels executed on handmade paper in 1938, Bose painted these on Mahatma Gandhi’s request to mark the Congress session in Gujarat. These dynamic portraits of everyday Indian life cover every aspect of rural existence. Subjects like the humble cobbler, tailor, farmer or a woman milking a cow, were handled with superb artistic discipline and with the greatest economy of strokes.
It was a blending of classical formal technique with the vibrant rural subject matter and themes drawn from rural India that gave his art its great composure and fundamental directness.
Nandalal Bose passed away on 16 April 1966.
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Born
1882
Kharagpur Bihar
Died
April 16, 1966
Kolkata
Education
1922-51 First Principal of Kala Bhavan, Viswa Bharati University, Santiniketan
1919 Taught at Art School, Santiniketan
1905-10 Student of Abanindranath Tagore, Government School of Art and Craft, Kolkata
1903-05 Commercial Class, Presidency College, Kolkata
Exhibitions
Selected Posthumous Exhibitions
2012-13 Nandalal Bose & Benode...
Selected Posthumous Exhibitions
2012-13 Nandalal Bose & Benode Behari Mukherjee at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2011-12 'The Body Unbound', Rubin Museum of Art, New York
2011 'Ethos V: Indian Art Through the Lens of History (1900 to 1980), Indigo Blue Art, Singapore
2011 'Postcards of Nandalal Bose', Akar Prakar, Kolkata
2011 ‘Manifestations VI', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 ‘Manifestations V', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 ‘Manifestations IV', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2009 'Indian Art After Independence: Selected Works from the Collections of Virginia & Ravi Akhoury and Shelley & Donald Rubin', Emily Lowe Gallery, Hempstead
2009 'In Search of the Vernacular', Aicon Gallery, New York
2008 'Rhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose (1882-1966), Organised by the San Diego Museum of Art in collaboration with the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in New Delhi at Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
2008 ‘Freedom 2008 – Sixty Years after Indian Independence’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2005 ‘Manifestations III – 100 Artists of Contemporary Art’, organized by Delhi Art Gallery at Nehru Centre, Mumbai, Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2004 ‘Manifestations II – 100 Artists of Contemporary Art’, organized by Delhi Art Gallery at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2003 ‘Manifestations I – Indian Art in the 20th Century’, organized by Delhi Art Gallery at World Trade Centre, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
1997 ‘Santiniketan: The Making of Contextual Modernism’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
1995 ‘Man and Nature : Reflections of Six Artists’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
1995 Gallery Raku, Kyoto, Japan
1995 Le Monde De I Art, Paris
1995 'Fantasy', Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
1994 'Contemporary Miniatures', Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
1993 Little Gallery, Kolkata
1993 Trends & Images', Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
1993 'Wounds', National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi and Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
1992 Nandan Art Gallery, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan
1991 ‘National Exposition of Contemporary Art’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
1990 Kala Yatra, Santiniketan
1988 Olympiad of Art, Seoul, South Korea
1988 Takaoka Municipal Museum of Art & Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1987 Festival of India, USSR & Switzerland
1982 Centenary Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1954 Retrospective, Calcutta Exhibition, Geneva
1937 Lucknow and Haripura Session of the Indian National Congress
1954 Exhibition at Geneva, Switzerland
1928 Athenee Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
1924 Traveling Exhibition in USA, Organized by American Federation of Art and Indian Society of Oriental Art (ISOA)
1916 Indian Society of Oriental Art, Kolkata
1915 Indian Society of Oriental Art, Kolkata; Young Men’s Indian Association, Chennai
1914 22nd Exhibition of Societe des Peintres Orientalistes Francais, Grand Palais, Paris. (Traveling to Belgium, Holland and Imperial Institute, England).
1912 Indian Society of Oriental Art, Kolkata
1911 Festival of Empire, Crystal Palace, England, Organized by Indian Society of Oriental Art, for George Vs Coronation
1911 Indian Society of Oriental Art, United Provinces Exhibition, Allahabad
1910 Indian Society of Oriental Art, Kolkata
1909 Indian Society of Oriental Art Exhibition, Simla
1908 Inaugural Exhibition, Indian Society of Oriental Art, Kolkata
Honours and Awards
1976 Declared National Art Treasure under the Antiquities & Art Treasure...
1976 Declared National Art Treasure under the Antiquities & Art Treasure Act 1972, Government of India
1965 Received Tagore Birth Centenary Medal from the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
1963 D.Litt., Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
1958 Silver Jubilee Medal, Academy of Fine Arts
1957 D.Litt., Calcutta University, Kolkata
1956 Lalit Kala Akademi honored him with fellowship
1954 Padma Bhushan from Government of India
1953 Dadabhai Naoroji Memorial Prize
1952 D.Litt., Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan
1950 D.Litt., Benaras Hindu University, Benaras
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