Tagore show
Tagore known for his literary works across the globe was also a versed painter, a facet of his not much known to the world.
From 1928 onwards, Rabindranath began to paint images laden with memory and fantasy. He used very simple material – any available paper, coloured ink, crayon, gouache pigment, brush, rags and fingers with frenzy. He painted heads, figures, bizarre animals and flora, and landscapes of the mind.” It took India time to ‘accept' him as an artist. Tagore had his first show of painting in the early 1930s in Calcutta (now Kolkata) to a lukewarm response.
The National Gallery for Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, is celebrating it with a unique art exhibition titled “Circle of Art: The Three Tagores”.
Tagore known for his literary works across the globe was also a versed painter, a facet of his not much known to the world.
From 1928 onwards, Rabindranath began to paint images laden with memory and fantasy. He used very simple material – any available paper, coloured ink, crayon, gouache pigment, brush, rags and fingers with frenzy. He painted heads, figures, bizarre animals and flora, and landscapes of the mind.” It took India time to ‘accept' him as an artist. Tagore had his first show of painting in the early 1930s in Calcutta (now Kolkata) to a lukewarm response.
The National Gallery for Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, is celebrating it with a unique art exhibition titled “Circle of Art: The Three Tagores”.
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