Kshitindranath majumdar biography of abraham

  • Kshitindranath Majumdar: Naïve Evocations.
  • One such artist was Kshitindranath Majumdar.
  • For fourteen years, Chatterjee trained under Haldar, the principal of his art school.

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    Kshitindranath Majumdar: Naïve Evocations

    He was born in Nimtita, Murshidabad District, West Bengal and had no formal education in art. His knowledge was acquired from village plays and devotional hymns. Majumdar in 1905-06 like many other students, enrolled at the Government School of Art when Abanindranath Tagore was the Vice principal becoming one of his early students. Through this inner circle of students, that also included many famous names formed around Abanindranath, emerged the new art movement- the Neo Bengal Art Movement; with paintings which broadly confirmed to Abanindranath’s formula of an “Indian-style’. It is this core group which helped in disseminating the layered wash technique developed by Abanindranath Tagore.

    Majumdar worked in the layered wash technique, as his visionary subject-matter lent itself to the fulfillment of the need of his passionate devotion to familiar Hindu eternal themes of Radha- Krishna and Chaitanya. This approach made

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    Bengal School of Paintings
    Art survived in the British ruler establshed
    smaller feudal states by art schools in Bombay,
    After 1857 mutiny Indian the end of the century Madras, Calcutta They successfully
    art stood still
    persuade that there is
    no culture in India

    Bengal school laid


    the foundation of
    Modern Indian art Few very talented artists emerged by
    this time like Raja Ravi Verma,
    Abanindranath Tagore,
    Spread in Delhi, punjab, Gaganendranath Tagore,
    Gujrat, lucknow, J

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    Sanat Chatterjee

    Sanat Kumar Chatterjee's choice of subjects included the pantheon of Hindu deities, landscapes and other figurative slice-of-life images.

    One of the gods proponents of the Bengal School, Sanat Kumar Chatterjee was born in 1935 in Lucknow, and grew up in various cities of British India as his father had a transferable job with Indian Railways. Encouraged by his parents, he obtained a diploma in fine arts from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Lucknow, in 1960.

    As a teenager, Chatterjee had met Asit Kumar Haldar, a major pionjär of the Bengal School. For fourteen years, Chatterjee trained beneath Haldar, the principal of his art school. He also studied under Kshitindranath Majumdar in Allahabad.

    However, Chatterjee gradually evolved his own style and became especially renowned for his watercolour on silk paintings in the rengöring technique, some of which were gigantic scrolls. One of these, measuring 100 ft x 11 ft, entered the Guinness Book of World Records inom