Tagore, Abanindranath : (1871-1951): son of Gunendranath, great-grandson of Dwarakānath. Artist & litterateur, he re-established the old Indian system of art & painting in the esteem of the world. He inspired a number of other Indian artists including Nandalal Bose (q.v.). He was the founder of the Indian Society of Oriental Art. Earlier, he had been a colleague of Havell in the Govt. School of Art in Calcutta.
... first incipient outline of an unprecedented synthesis was thus traced, and the perennial founts of India's mighty spirituality were unsealed. Bankim, Page 182 Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and a few others evoked various powers of the soul of India and considerably helped the expansion and enrichment of her culture. In the field of politics and... from contributing to his papers to enlisting support for and organising the revolutionary party. Being on intimate terms with most of the luminaries of contemporary India, Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Jagadish Chandra Bose, P.C. Roy, Bepin Chandra Pal, Brahmabandhava Upadhyaya, Ramananda Chatterji, R.C. Dutt, Okakura, the Japanese art connoisseur, Gokhale, Tilak etc., she exerted ...
... Bande Mataram, and the greatest novelist in Bengali literature. Dr. Rajendra Lal Mitra, Sri Ramkrishna Paramahansa, Swami Vivekananda, Yogi Vijay Krishna Goswami, the world-poet Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, the gifted pioneer of the new school of Indian Art, Jagadish Chandra Bose, the greatest Indian scientist 79, etc. etc., - an unbroken line of outstanding personalities who enriched ...
... brought a collection of Nandalal Bose's and Abanindranath Tagore's paintings for Sri Aurobindo's inspection SRI AUROBINDO(after seeing one or two of Abanindranath's) : Obviously, on the whole he is a greater. PURANI: Jayantilal says that in some individual paintings Nandalal has shown greater genius, and he considers him potentially a greater artist than Tagore but his potentialities haven't fulfilled... fulfilled themselves. SRI AUROBINDO: Abanindranath has more force of imagination and a greater power of expression. PURANI: Jayantilal says that he doesn't hold the modernist view of art. SRI AUROBINDO: Art for the mass? PURANI: Yes, he is more aristocrat and conservative. How do you find Gaganendranath Tagore? SRI AUROBINDO: He has rather brilliant fancy than true imagination. Sometimes... these are the three great artists. PURANI: Gandhi is now going to Shantiniketan. It seems the tie between Gandhi and Tagore will get stronger now. You know that it was through Gandhi that Tagore got Rs 60,000 for his Shantiniketan. When Gandhi went to Delhi and saw that Tagore had come there at such an old age to collect money, he said to him, "You go back. I will arrange for the money." And he ...
... Table of Illustrations Page Frontispiece Mirra at the turn of the century 45 Rabindranath Tagore; autographed in March, 1930 (courtesy Abhay Nahar) 48 Abanindranath Tagore, detail of a dry-point by Mukul Dey 55 A sketch by Nandalal Bose, from Abhay's autograph book 58 Nandalal Bose (courtesy Mrs Jamuna Sen) 67 Sujata ...
... happy and full of praise when she went there herself and saw the two Indian artists' work of copying the murals of Ajanta. These two boys were students of Abanin-dranath Tagore, whom she knew so well. Artist Abanindranath Tagore and his students owe her a lot. Her critical articles in Indian magazines and periodicals contributed in a great measure to the understanding of Indian art by the then... Ideals of the East. So between Okakura and Nivedita and Page 550 Sarala Ghosal and the Tagores, Jorasanko became a lively centre for revolutionary activity; just as it had become a cultural centre with Havel, Justice Woodroffe, Okakura, Ananda Coomaraswa-my, Nivedita and Abanindranath. Every facet of Indian life interested Nivedita. And she gave herself unstintedly to propagate... ladies present instantly lost their lustre." Abanindranath had kept a photo of Nivedita on his table. When Lord Carmichael 4 saw the photo, struck by its beauty, he wanted to know whose it was. Hearing that it was Nivedita's, he said, "Oh, so this is Sister Nivedita? I want just such a photo." And he took it away with him. Then Abanindranath said, "Had you but seen the photo you would have known ...
... album of Abanindranath Tagore came and was shown to Sri Aurobindo .) Sri Aurobindo : Are these pictures of Abanindranath his latest ones? They have given me a peculiar impression. Disciple : They are his paintings and portraits since 1923. Do you find that he has deteriorated? Sri Aurobindo : No. But they all seem to be from the vital world. Of course, all Abanindranath's paintings... of Pashupati” : Shiva's bride from the vital plane. Disciple : Abanindranath very early began his work in the Kangra style. I mean his Krishna Lila paintings. Sri Aurobindo : All arts in general and poetry and painting in particular belong to the vital plane. Disciple : Does not poetry – like, that of Tagore – come from the mental plane? Sri Aurobindo : No. It does not... paintings of Nandalal dealing with Puranic subjects. But I find one or two are failures Sri Aurobindo : In Nandalal's paintings you find the background of a strong mental conception; while Abanindranath's paintings are from the vital world. I would like to see some of his earlier works. My idea is that in Abanindra's case the inspiration from Ajanta is not so strong as that of the Moghul and ...
... so did Abanindranath Tagore the signs of an artist in him. Abanindranath and Nishikanto met each other on the banks of the river Kopai where the former had seen Nishikanto looking for something. When he asked whether he was searching for jewels, Nishikanto replied: “I’m looking for ingredients of Khichuri [a preparation of rice and pulses].” “Let me see what you’ve gathered,” Abanindranath inquired... the fire that was burning in his eyes. The guest was none other than Nishikanto. He introduced himself as a former student of Kalabhavan who learnt poetry under Rabindranath and painting under Abanindranath Tagore. He told Dilip Kumar about his interest in Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga and added that he had come to thePondicherry to receive initiation from the Lord. He said that he was aware of Dilip... which resembled the ingredients. Abanindranath was very pleased to observe Nishikanto’s imaginative mind and began to call him the “Mad Artist.” Nishikanto’s paintings can be divided into two parts—landscape and symbolic. Even when he was a student of Kalabhavan where he learned the art of painting from Nandalal Bose and received guidance for the same from Abanindranath, there was a distinct mark of ...
... just the important part. He was, before coming here, in Shantiniketan. In fact, he was brought up there from when he was a young boy. And he was a great favourite of Tagore and Nandalal Bose the great artist, as well as Abanindranath Tagore. Nishikanto was both a poet and an artist. I think he does some sketches even now; if you are interested, when you go to Corner House, you can pay him a visit and... So Rabindranath became very fond of him because he showed a great power of genius. Abanindranath and Nandalal also grew very fond of him. But as he grew older, somehow he felt that Shantiniketan was not the place for him. He was then twenty or twenty-one years old. However, he stayed on as long as he could; Tagore used to call him very often to his house. He gave him good food and Nishikanto the poet... tell you later on about it. Even now, though he is not well, he is very fond of it, so don't tempt him with rasagollas! So Tagore used to invite him, call him, read out his own poems which were very striking. Tagore used to ask for his judgment and his opinions. One day, Tagore had written a Bengali novel and he asked Nishikanto: "I have a hero - a character, what name do you suggest for him?" He said ...
... grotesqueness of line and conception. We have not left ourselves the space to do justice to the really great art represented in the book, the wonderful suggestions of the landscape in Sj. Abanindranath Tagore's "Slaying of the Enchanted Deer", the decorative beauty of the "Last Days of Dasarath", and the epic grandeur and grace and strange romantic mystery of "Mahadev receiving the Descent of the ...
... again, the national spirit is seeking to satisfy itself in art and, for the first time since the decline of the Moguls, a new school of national art is developing itself, the school of which Abanindranath Tagore is the founder and master. It is still troubled by the foreign though Asiatic influence from which its master started, and has something of an exotic appearance, but the development and sel ...
... Vulgarisation every where! NIRODBARAN: Indian painting is not yet so bad as European. People are not following the leaders of modernism here, Rabindranath Tagore as a painter is not much imitated. Perhaps because of Abanindranath Tagore and Nandalal Bose. SRI AUROBINDO: They, I suppose, praise Rabindranath but don't encourage others to follow him. (Laughter) In Europe, apart from vulgarisation ...
... Gandhi movement some one asked Abanindranath Tagore, why he was not giving up his painting for the sake of the country and take to politics. He said : I believe, I serve the country through my painting in which I have some capacity, that, at Page 134 least, is something I know; whereas I would be only a bad politician. Disciple : Tagore narrowly escaped the Charkha. But ...
... the last century, the Indian master-artist 23 Coomaraswamy, The Transformation of Nature in Art ( 2nd ed.), New York pp. 5-6. 24 Savitri, p. 112. Page 250 Abanindranath Tagore affirmed this spirit by advising the modem Indian artist to assimilate the essence of the past but have the courage to tread new ground. The modem shilpa-yogin 's sādhanā, he said, is ... prescribed images of the Gods, a vast adventurous embrace of all life as the field of Yoga, and hence as providing fit subjects for the shilpa-yogin' s contemplation and 25 Abanindranath Tagore, Bageshwari Shilpa Prabandhābali, Calcutta, Allahabad, Bombay, 1969, p.1. (Author's translation). 26 Questions and Answers, CWM, Vol. 3, p. 105. 27 Ibid., Vol. 6, p. 83... world, they grow in consciousness by this concentration, which is not other than the consciousness given by Yoga." 26 The Mother has more to say about the discipline of the artist's training, Abanindranath's weaving of his "dream-catcher's net": "...there is a considerable difference between the vision of ordinary people and that of artists. Their way of seeing things is much more complete and conscious ...
... instance When the French heard of Wilde's imprisonment, they said about the English people: "Comme ils sont bêtes!" ("How stupid they are!") At the time of the Gandhi movement, someone asked Abanindranath Tagore to give up painting and take to politics. He answered, "I am serving the country through my art. Painting is at least something I know well, but I would be a very bad politician. Now Purani... seriously. SRI AUROBINDO: How do you expect anyone to take it seriously? If I were asked to spin, I would offer passive resistance myself—complete Satyagraha. (Laughter) I wonder what Abanindra Tagore and D would have done. NIRODBARAN: It seems Nandalal Bose did spinning. SRI AUROBINDO: Isn't he a man of an ascetic temperament? There was somebody who even wrote that the Chakra referred to ...
... with itself or replace it if destroyed. Finally, the artistic awakening has been commenced by that young, living and energetic school which has gathered round the Master and originator, Sj. Abanindranath Tagore. The impulse which this school is giving, its inspired artistic recovery of the past, its intuitive anticipations of the future, have to be popularised and made a national possession. Page ...
... is recognised by us. But there are eyes and eyes. Once in a while we experience the "artifice of eternity". There are also eyes that draw "peacefulness from tarns on mountain tops". Abanindranath Tagore affirmed that "every artist must first weave to his own design a dream-catcher's net." In that endeavour he must develop a sight almost yogic in character and from that should come the arts ...
... artists discarded copying the Western style. Leaving the beaten track they cut out their own path. The leaders of this new direction were Rabindranath's nephews: Abanindranath Tagore (Aban Thakur, 1871-1951) and his elder brother Gaganendranath Tagore (1867-1938). It was the help of Ernest Benfield Havell, who was the Art School's Principal from 1896 to 1906 and who recognized that the whole basis of Indian... of the Bengal artists,' it is none other than Nandalal Bose. Nandalal Bose (1882-1966) was Abanindranath's Page 52 first student. It was in 1905, that crucial year for India, that he joined the Art School and became a direct student of its Vice-Principal, Abanindranath Tagore. His classmates were great artists like Asit Kumar Haldar, who later became the Principal of the Luck-now... and educating the public in it. Sri Aurobindo had said, "Bengal art has found its way at once at the first step, by a sort of immediate intuition." And we can be grateful to the Tagores for it. Abanindranath's role in the rebirth of taste and Page 47 understanding and the release of creativity in the world of Indian art is uncontested. He had his roots deep and widespread ...
... worlds, proves that it is capable of being useful today. The most striking example however, so far as the field of painting is concerned, is that of the great Bengali artist, Abanindranath Tagore. In his autobiography A. Tagore has described how he used to see a flood of forms, all colourful, around him when he was trying to paint the ''Krishna-Charit" series. It seemed as if the brush was slower than... expression. The other experience came to him after the death of his mother. When his mother died A. Tagore felt deeply sore because he had not drawn his mother's portrait. He sat quietly and tried to recall in memory his mother's form. All unexpectedly it appeared before his inner vision and A. Tagore was excited and became nervous and tried to draw the portrait in a hurry. Suddenly the vision disappeared... European, are given it is not suggested that there should be in the world of art a return to the past whether of Europe or of India. This is not desirable, neither is it possible. In the words of A. Tagore "such an effort would be a forced marriage— (Rāksasa Vivāha) Page 62 between the present and the past"..."As a carriage cannot move backwards so cannot life" Bagishwari Lectures) ...
... A.K. Majumdar (Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan), and on The Philosophy and Religion of Sri Chaitanya, by O.B.L. Kapoor (Munshiram Manoharlal). Chaitaanya with his disciples, by Abanindranath Tagore Notes 1 Shraddha Ceremony: Traditional ceremony in commemoration of a deceased parent. 2 Samkirtana: Group dancing and chanting in the name of Krishna. A distinctly informal ...
... × For example, one still reads with a sense of despairing stupefaction "criticism" that speaks of Ravi Varma and Abanindranath Tagore as artistic creators of different styles, but an equal power and genius! ...
... Institute: p. 260, p. 269, 272, p. 277 — Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust Archives, p. 514, p. 515, p. 520 — Editions Auroville Press Publishers: p. 495 — Jean-Louis Nou, Mathura Museum: p. 96 — Abanindranath Tagore: p. 60 — Nandalal Bose: p. 74, p. 75, p. 81 — Upendra Maharathi, National Gallery of Modern Arts, New Delhi: p. 93. Page 526 Printed at Auroville Press 2005 Auroville, India ...
... Utanka encounters every sort of experience and danger in order to procure the presents of Veda's choice before being free to leave his preceptor's home. Kacha and Devayani - Abanindranath Tagore Another picture of ideal studentship is brought out in the story of Kacha and Devayani. Devayani's father Sukracharya, was Kacha's teacher. She fell in love with Kacha, but he had taken the ...
... brothers and sisters). On Rakhi-bandhan day, on Rabindranath’s inspiration, everyone decided to celebrate this festival with much enthusiasm. Rabindranath set out from his house. Abanindranath and other members of the Tagore household followed him. A sea of people joined in. They were all heading for the bank of the Ganges. After bathing in the river they all began tying a rakhi to one another. The ...
... picture of Nandalal Bose – Pathahārā, – "Way-lost" (cow) ? Disciple : Yes. Sri Aurobindo : There is something of it there, and there was another picture by Abanindranath, which I now forget. But generally Abanindranath draws his inspira. tion from the vital plane. Disciple : Has it nothing to do with mental beauty ? Sri Aurobindo : No. That is why it is difficult to know... perversion. Disciple : Is it not true that when we suffer we turn to God ? Sri Aurobindo : Not necessarily. There are people who suffer and suffer and never turn to God. Disciple : Tagore says, "Suffering or joy, whatever you give, I put it on my head and accept with equal joy," – Page 201 Sri Aurobindo : Yes, yes. That is all right. That is like all things ...
... Fruit मधुराधिपतेरखिलं मधुरं Madhurādhipater Akhilam Madhuram Madhuram The Charming Lord Wholly Madhuram Page 205 Chaitanya with his disciples, by Abanindranath Tagore (b) Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's experiences of Sri Krishna (A Selection) In the spiritual history of India Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486 AD-1534)is considered to be ...
... ¹ "In 1909 I got a yogic fancy for taking only rice, ghee and plantains which I carried out though desire for meat was there in the vital being." Talk about the paintings of Abanindranath and Rabindranath Tagore. 7 April. Talk on Indian political constitutions and institutions. 14 April. Sri Aurobindo spoke about one of his own experiences: "When I got first the Cosmic Consciousness –... because I am not ready. If the unripe goes amid the unripe what can he do? ² Your Sejdada ³ . ¹ “The Fossilised House" or "The Home of Conservatism" - name of a play by Rabindranath Tagore. ² A Letter of Sri Aurobindo, Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education , Vol. XIV, No. 3 (August 1962), pp. ii-xxii (slightly edited). ³ Elder brother Page 173... in its place. One has to offer his free self to the Divine; afterwards the Divine will chose the action in you." 7 March. Talk on Hindu-Muslim unity and Khilafat. Discussion about the poetry of Tagore and of Harin Chattopadhyaya and about a letter of Mahatma Gandhi to Mahomed Ali. 8 March. A letter from Kesarlal Dixit about coming to the Ashram; another from Rajani Kanta Palit about the illness ...
... need to educate our women. She knew and had exchanges with all the great minds of the age - Rabindranath, Jagadish Bose, Abanindranath, Tilak, all of them. It was largely due to her that Jagadish Bose received international scientific acclaim. It was she who helped Abanindranath awaken his artistic consciousness. In any case, it is clear that every Indian will be indebted to her forever. You should... ones. Similarly, mankind speaks various languages. Even in our country there is so much diversity. You see, manifold are the Lord's ways. Sitting right here, in the Ashram, which may be described in Tagore's words as 'the beaches of the vast ocean of humanity', you can discover so many mysteries of the visible and in visible worlds. In the Puranas it is said Page 12 that Ganesh covered the... Darjeeling surrounded by its mountains and snows, this place with its tall houses from the top of which long spires of smoke rose into the sky was a new and not a very pleasant experience. Do you know Tagore's vivid simile about London — as if the city were lying flat on its back and smoking a huge Burma-cheroot, (loud laughter) while its smoke blackened with annoyance the face of its sky, just as your ...
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