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| birth_place = [[Kharagpur, Munger|Haveli Kharagpur]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />(now in [[Bihar]], [[India]])<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X47DAgAAQBAJ&pg=PP3 | title=Nanadlal Bose | author=C. H. Prahlada Rao | author-link=C. H. Prahlada Rao | date=January 2014 | publisher= Rashtrotthana Sahitya }}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Kharagpur, Munger|Haveli Kharagpur]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />(now in [[Bihar]], [[India]])<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X47DAgAAQBAJ&pg=PP3 | title=Nanadlal Bose | author=C. H. Prahlada Rao | author-link=C. H. Prahlada Rao | date=January 2014 | publisher= Rashtrotthana Sahitya }}</ref>
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1966|4|16|1882|12|3}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1966|4|16|1882|12|3}}
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]], India
| death_place = [[Santiniketan]], [[West Bengal]], India
| nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]]
| nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]]
| field = [[Painting]]
| field = [[Painting]]
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| education = [[University of Calcutta]], [[Government College of Art and Craft]]
| education = [[University of Calcutta]], [[Government College of Art and Craft]]
| spouse = Sudhira Devi (1903)
| spouse = Sudhira Devi (1903)
| relatives = [[Gouri Bhanja]] (daughter)<br/> [[Jamuna Sen]] (daughter) <br/>[[Surendranath Kar]] (cousin)
| children = 4
}}
}}
'''Nandalal Bose''' (3 December 1882 – 16 April 1966) was one of the pioneers of modern [[Indian art]] and a key figure of [[Santiniketan: The Making of a Contextual Modernism|Contextual Modernism]].
'''Nandalal Bose''' (3 December 1882 – 16 April 1966) was one of the pioneers of modern [[Indian art]] and a key figure of [[Santiniketan: The Making of a Contextual Modernism|Contextual Modernism]].


A pupil of [[Abanindranath Tagore]], Bose was known for his "Indian style" of painting. He became the principal of [[Kala Bhavan]], [[Santiniketan]] in 1922. He was influenced by the [[Tagore family]] and the [[Ajanta Caves|murals of Ajanta]]; his classic works include paintings of scenes from Indian mythologies, women, and village life.
A pupil of [[Abanindranath Tagore]], Bose was known for his "Indian style" of painting. He became the principal of [[Kala Bhavan]], [[Santiniketan]] in 1921. He was influenced by the [[Tagore family]] and the [[Ajanta Caves|murals of Ajanta]]; his classic works include paintings of scenes from Indian mythologies, women, and village life.


Today, many critics consider his paintings among India's most important modern paintings.<ref>{{cite news |title=San Diego museum showcases Nandalal Bose |url=http://in.rediff.com/news/2008/jun/25paint.htm |publisher=[[Rediff.com]] News |date=25 June 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The Art of Nandalal Bose' is first U.S. showcase for an Indian icon|author= Robert L. Pincus| url=http://www.paramuspost.com/article.php/20080314111558184 |publisher=Paramus Post |date=15 March 2008 }}</ref><ref name="GaneshThakkar2005">{{cite book|author1=Kamala Ganesh|author2=Usha Thakkar|title=Culture and the Making of Identity in Contemporary India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ePtg79MKkkwC&pg=PT49|date=13 July 2005|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-0-7619-3381-6|pages=49–}}</ref> In 1976, the [[Archaeological Survey of India]], Department of Culture, [[Govt. of India]] declared his works among the "nine artists" whose work, "not being antiquities", were to be henceforth considered "to be art treasures, having regard to their artistic and aesthetic value".<ref>Nine Masters {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907065925/http://chdmuseum.nic.in/art_gallery/nine_masters.html|date=7 September 2015|title=}} [[Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh]]. "Nine Masters: [[Rabindranath Tagore]], [[Amrita Sher-Gil]], [[Jamini Roy]], Nandalal Bose, [[Raja Ravi Varma]], [[Gaganendranath Tagore]], [[Abanindranath Tagore]], [[Sailoz Mookherjea]], and [[Nicholas Roerich]]."</ref>
Today, many critics consider his paintings among India's most important modern paintings.<ref>{{cite news |title=San Diego museum showcases Nandalal Bose |url=http://in.rediff.com/news/2008/jun/25paint.htm |publisher=[[Rediff.com]] News |date=25 June 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The Art of Nandalal Bose' is first U.S. showcase for an Indian icon |author=Robert L. Pincus |url=http://www.paramuspost.com/article.php/20080314111558184 |publisher=Paramus Post |date=15 March 2008 |access-date=23 May 2009 |archive-date=29 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029202012/http://www.paramuspost.com/article.php/20080314111558184 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="GaneshThakkar2005">{{cite book|author1=Kamala Ganesh|author2=Usha Thakkar|title=Culture and the Making of Identity in Contemporary India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ePtg79MKkkwC&pg=PT49|date=13 July 2005|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-0-7619-3381-6|pages=49–}}</ref> In 1976, the [[Archaeological Survey of India]], Department of Culture, [[Govt. of India]] declared his works among the "nine artists" whose work, "not being antiquities", were to be henceforth considered "to be art treasures, having regard to their artistic and aesthetic value".<ref>Nine Masters {{Cite web |url=http://chdmuseum.nic.in/art_gallery/nine_masters.html |title=The Government Museum and Art Gallery Chandigarh, India |access-date=28 January 2010 |archive-date=7 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907065925/http://chdmuseum.nic.in/art_gallery/nine_masters.html |url-status=dead }} [[Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh]]. "Nine Masters: [[Rabindranath Tagore]], [[Amrita Sher-Gil]], [[Jamini Roy]], Nandalal Bose, [[Raja Ravi Varma]], [[Gaganendranath Tagore]], [[Abanindranath Tagore]], [[Sailoz Mookherjea]], and [[Nicholas Roerich]]."</ref>


He was given the work of illustrating the constitution of India.
He was given the work of illustrating the [[constitution of India]].


==Early life==
==Early life==
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==Career==
==Career==
[[File:Yama And Savitri, from a painting by Nandalal Bose.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Yama]] and [[Savitri and Satyavan|Savitri]], from a painting by Nandalal Bose, 1913]]
[[File:Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists - Kirat-Arjuna.jpg|thumb|upright|''[[Kirātārjunīya|Kirat-Arjuna]]'', 1914]]
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As a young artist, Nandalal Bose was deeply influenced by the [[mural]]s of the [[Ajanta Caves]]. He had become part of an international circle of artists and writers seeking to revive classical Indian culture; a circle that already included [[Okakura Kakuzō]], [[William Rothenstein]], [[Yokoyama Taikan]], [[Christiana Herringham]], [[Laurence Binyon]], [[Abanindranath Tagore]], and the seminal London Modernist sculptors [[Eric Gill]] and [[Jacob Epstein]].<ref>[http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modernism-modernity/summary/v018/18.1.arrowsmith.html Rupert Richard Arrowsmith, "The Transcultural Roots of Modernism: Imagist Poetry, Japanese Visual Culture, and the Western Museum System"], ''[[Modernism/modernity]]'' Volume 18, Number 1, January 2011, 27–42. {{ISSN|1071-6068}}.</ref><ref>[http://vimeo.com/arrowsmith/cosmopolitanism-and-modernism Video of a Lecture mentioning Bose in the context of Indian influences n global modernism], ''[[London University School of Advanced Study]]'', March 2012.</ref>


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To mark the 1930 occasion of [[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s [[History of the British salt tax in India#Mahatma Gandhi and the salt tax|arrest for protesting the British tax on salt]], Bose created a black on white linocut print of Gandhi walking with a staff. It became the iconic image for the non-violence movement.{{cn|date=July 2023}}[[File:Untitled by Nandalal Bose.jpg|thumb|''Untitled'' by Nandalal Bose, 1954, Collage and ink on paper, DAG Museums]]
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[[File:Yama And Savitri, from a painting by Nandalal Bose.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Yama]] and [[Savitri and Satyavan|Savitri]], from a painting by Nandalal Bose.|left]]As a young artist, Nandalal Bose was deeply influenced by the [[mural]]s of the [[Ajanta Caves]]. He had become part of an international circle of artists and writers seeking to revive classical Indian culture; a circle that already included [[Okakura Kakuzō]], [[William Rothenstein]], [[Yokoyama Taikan]], [[Christiana Herringham]], [[Laurence Binyon]], [[Abanindranath Tagore]], and the seminal London Modernist sculptors [[Eric Gill]] and [[Jacob Epstein]].<ref>[http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modernism-modernity/summary/v018/18.1.arrowsmith.html Rupert Richard Arrowsmith, "The Transcultural Roots of Modernism: Imagist Poetry, Japanese Visual Culture, and the Western Museum System"], ''[[Modernism/modernity]]'' Volume 18, Number 1, January 2011, 27–42. {{ISSN|1071-6068}}.</ref><ref>[http://vimeo.com/arrowsmith/cosmopolitanism-and-modernism Video of a Lecture mentioning Bose in the context of Indian influences n global modernism], ''[[London University School of Advanced Study]]'', March 2012.</ref>


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His genius and original style were recognised by artists and art critics like [[Gaganendranath Tagore]], [[Ananda Coomaraswamy]] and [[O. C. Ganguli]].{{cn|date=July 2023}} These lovers of art felt that objective criticism was necessary for the development of painting and founded the [[Indian Society of Oriental Art]].
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To mark the 1930 occasion of [[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s [[History of the British salt tax in India#Mahatma Gandhi and the salt tax|arrest for protesting the British tax on salt]], Bose created a black on white linocut print of Gandhi walking with a staff. It became the iconic image for the non-violence movement.[[File:Untitled by Nandalal Bose.jpg|thumb|''Untitled'' by Nandalal Bose, 1954, Collage and ink on paper, DAG Museums]]


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He became principal of the Kala Bhavana (College of Arts) at Tagore's International University [[Santiniketan]] in 1921.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mandal |first=Panchanan |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.303663 |title=Bharatshilpi Nandalal |publisher=Rarh Gobeshona Parshad |year=1968 |edition=1st |volume=1 |location=Santiniketan |language=Bangla}}</ref>
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His genius and original style were recognised by famous artists and art critics like [[Gaganendranath Tagore]], [[Ananda Coomaraswamy]] and [[O. C. Ganguli]]. These lovers of art felt that objective criticism was necessary for the development of painting and founded the Indian Society of Oriental Art.


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He was also asked by [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] to sketch the emblems for the Government of India's awards, including the [[Bharat Ratna]] and the [[Padma Shri]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Nandalal Bose paintings on display in U.S. |url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/03/15/stories/2008031556021400.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080318213444/http://www.hindu.com/2008/03/15/stories/2008031556021400.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 March 2008 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=15 March 2008 }}</ref> Along with his disciple [[Beohar Rammanohar Sinha|Rammanohar]], Nandalal Bose took up the task of beautifying/decorating the original manuscript of the [[Constitution of India]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2672/ | title=The Constitution of India | access-date=9 December 2010 | date=7 May 2009 | publisher=World Digital Library}}</ref>
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He became principal of the Kala Bhavana (College of Arts) at Tagore's International University [[Santiniketan]] in 1921.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mandal |first=Panchanan |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.303663 |title=Bharatshilpi Nandalal |publisher=Rarh Gobeshona Parshad |year=1968 |edition=1st |volume=1 |location=Santiniketan |language=Bangla}}</ref>


He died on 16 April 1966 in [[Santiniketan]]<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |year=2003 |title=Bose, Nandalal |encyclopedia=[[Grove Art Online]] |last=Kumar |first=R. Siva |author-link=R. Siva Kumar |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T010273}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi |url=http://ngmaindia.gov.in/virtual-tour-of-nandalal-bose.asp |access-date=2023-01-26 |website=ngmaindia.gov.in}}</ref> of natural causes.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chatterjee |first=Prerna |date=2018-12-03 |title=Celebrating Nandalal Bose, artist who rejected everything British & designed India's constitution |url=https://theprint.in/features/celebrating-nandalal-bose-artist-who-rejected-everything-british-designed-indias-constitution/156874/ |access-date=2023-01-26 |website=ThePrint |language=en-US}}</ref>
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He was also famously asked by [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] to sketch the emblems for the Government of India's awards, including the [[Bharat Ratna]] and the [[Padma Shri]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Nandalal Bose paintings on display in U.S. |url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/03/15/stories/2008031556021400.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080318213444/http://www.hindu.com/2008/03/15/stories/2008031556021400.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 March 2008 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=15 March 2008 }}</ref> Along with his disciple [[Beohar Rammanohar Sinha|Rammanohar]], Nandalal Bose took up the historic task of beautifying/decorating the original manuscript of the [[Constitution of India]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2672/ | title=The Constitution of India | access-date=9 December 2010 | date=7 May 2009 | publisher=World Digital Library}}</ref>

He died on 16 April 1966 in Calcutta.


Today, the [[National Gallery of Modern Art]] in Delhi holds 7000 of his works in its collection, including a 1930 black and white [[linocut]] of the [[Dandi March]] depicting Mahatma Gandhi, and a set of seven posters he later made at the request of Mahatma Gandhi for the 1938 [[Haripura]] Session of the [[Indian National Congress]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Bengal School of Art exhibition to open in US|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2008-06-24/news/28438579_1_art-exhibition-darielle-mason-bengal-school |publisher=[[The Economic Times]] |date=24 June 2008 }}</ref>
Today, the [[National Gallery of Modern Art]] in Delhi holds 7000 of his works in its collection, including a 1930 black and white [[linocut]] of the [[Dandi March]] depicting Mahatma Gandhi, and a set of seven posters he later made at the request of Mahatma Gandhi for the 1938 [[Haripura]] Session of the [[Indian National Congress]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Bengal School of Art exhibition to open in US|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2008-06-24/news/28438579_1_art-exhibition-darielle-mason-bengal-school |publisher=[[The Economic Times]] |date=24 June 2008 }}</ref>


==His place in Indian Art==
==His place in Indian art==


In his introduction for the [[Christie's]] catalogue, [[R. Siva Kumar]] wrote-<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/drawings-watercolors/nandalal-bose-bull-fighter-5716124-details.aspx|title = Nandalal Bose (1882-1966)}}</ref>
In his introduction for the [[Christie's]] catalogue, [[R. Siva Kumar]] wrote-<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/drawings-watercolors/nandalal-bose-bull-fighter-5716124-details.aspx|title = Nandalal Bose (1882-1966)}}</ref>
{{quote|Nandalal Bose (1882–1966) occupies a place in the history of Modern Indian art that combines those of [[Raphael]] and [[Durer]] in the history of the Renaissance. Like [[Raphael]] Nandalal was a great synthesizer, his originality lay in his ability to marshal discrete ideas drawn from [[Abanindranath Tagore]], [[Rabindranath Tagore]], [[E. B. Havell]], [[Ananda Coomaraswamy]], [[Okakura Kakuzo]] and [[Mahatma Gandhi]] into a unique and unified programme for the creation of a new art movement in India. And like [[Durer]] he combined a passion bordering on devotion with an irrepressible analytical mind that compelled him to prise open different art traditions and unravel their syntactic logic, and make them accessible to a new generation of Indian artists. But he did this so quietly and without self-assertive fanfare that the significance of his work is yet to be fully grasped even in India.}}
{{blockquote|Nandalal Bose (1882–1966) occupies a place in the history of Modern Indian art that combines those of [[Raphael]] and [[Albrecht Dürer|Durer]] in the history of the Renaissance. Like Raphael, Nandalal was a great synthesizer, his originality lay in his ability to marshal discrete ideas drawn from [[Abanindranath Tagore]], [[Rabindranath Tagore]], [[E. B. Havell]], [[Ananda Coomaraswamy]], [[Okakura Kakuzo]] and [[Mahatma Gandhi]] into a unique and unified programme for the creation of a new art movement in India. And like Durer he combined a passion bordering on devotion with an irrepressible analytical mind that compelled him to prise open different art traditions and unravel their syntactic logic, and make them accessible to a new generation of Indian artists. But he did this so quietly and without self-assertive fanfare that the significance of his work is yet to be fully grasped even in India.}}


==Students==
==Students==
Some of his students were [[Benode Behari Mukherjee]], [[Ramkinkar Baij]], [[Beohar Rammanohar Sinha]], [[K. G. Subramanyan]], [[A. Ramachandran]], [[Henry Dharmasena]], L.T.P. Manjusri, [[Pratima Devi (painter)|Pratima Thakur]], Ramananda Bandopadhyay, Sovon Som, [[Jahar Dasgupta]], Sabita Thakur, Malina Domeraloo, Shreya Gang Gang, Menaja Swagnesh, Yash Bombbut, [[Satyajit Ray]], [[Dinkar Kaushik]], [[Amritlal Vegad]], Gauranga Charan and Kondapalli Seshagiri Rao.
Some of his notable students were [[Benode Behari Mukherjee]], [[Ramkinkar Baij]], [[Beohar Rammanohar Sinha]], [[K. G. Subramanyan]], [[A. Ramachandran]], [[Pratima Devi (painter)|Pratima Thakur]], [[Jahar Dasgupta]], [[Satyajit Ray]], [[Dinkar Kaushik]], [[Amritlal Vegad]], Kiron Sinha, [[A.D.Jayathilake (1756)]].

Also A.D.Jayathilake was one of his student from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and had the opportunity to study under Dr.Nandalal Bose in the final batch (1948–1952).<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.artbenwinton.com/about-art-benwinton/|title=About Art Benwinton|work=Art Benwinton|access-date=27 August 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> Dr. Nandalal Bose's uniquely drawn two paintings; "Arjuna Tree"<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.artbenwinton.com/product/art-1/|title=Art-1 Arjun Tree – Art Benwinton|work=Art Benwinton|access-date=27 August 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> and "Mango trees"<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.artbenwinton.com/product/art-2/|title=Art-2 Mango Trees – Art Benwinton|work=Art Benwinton|access-date=27 August 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> are currently with his Sri Lankan Student (A.D.Jaythilake).

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==Honours and awards==


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==Honours and awards==
Nandalal Bose, who left a major imprint on Indian art, was the first recipient of a scholarship offered by the Indian Society of Oriental Art, founded in 1907.
Nandalal Bose, who left a major imprint on Indian art, was the first recipient of a scholarship offered by the Indian Society of Oriental Art, founded in 1907.


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== Publications ==
== Publications ==
[[File:ছড়ার ছবি - রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর (page 92 crop).jpg|thumb|Illustration of the poem ''Rikto'' (রিক্ত; ''Empty '') in Rabindranath Tagore's ''Chharar Chhabi'' (ছড়ার ছবি).]]

* '''Drishti o srishti'''[Vision and the Creation] By Nandalal Bose, Published by Visva-Bharati Granthana Vibhaga [ ''Edition Language - Bengali'' ]
* '''Drishti o srishti''' [Vision and the Creation] by Nandalal Bose, published by Visva-Bharati Granthana Vibhaga [ ''Edition Language - Bengali'' ]
* '''Shilpa Charcha'''[ শিল্প চর্চা ] by Nandalal Bose, Published April 1956 by Visva Bharati [ ''Edition Language - Bengali'' ]
* '''Shilpa Charcha''' [ শিল্প চর্চা ] by Nandalal Bose, published April 1956 by Visva Bharati [ ''Edition Language - Bengali'' ]
* '''Pictures from the life of buddha''' By Nandalal Bose
* '''Pictures from the life of buddha''' by Nandalal Bose
* '''Rupavali''' by Nandalal Bose
* '''Rupavali''' by Nandalal Bose


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==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* ''Nandalal Bose and Indian painting'', by Ramyansu Sekhar Das. Tower Publishers, 1958.
* ''Nandalal Bose and Indian painting'', by Ramyansu Sekhar Das. Tower Publishers, 1958.
* "Bharat Shilpi Nandalal," Volumes 1-4, by Panchanan Mandal, Rarh Gobeshona Parshad, Santiniketan, 1968
* ''Bharat Shilpi Nandalal'', Volumes 1-4, (in Bengali) by Panchanan Mandal, Rarh Gobeshona Parshad, Santiniketan, 1968
* ''Nandalal Bose: a collection of essays : centenary volume''. [[Lalit Kala Akademi]], 1983.
* ''Nandalal Bose: a collection of essays : centenary volume''. [[Lalit Kala Akademi]], 1983.
* ''Nandalal Bose, the doyen of Indian art''. (National biography), by Dinkar Kowshik. [[National Book Trust]], India, 1985.
* ''Nandalal Bose, the doyen of Indian art''. (National biography), by Dinkar Kowshik. [[National Book Trust]], India, 1985.
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==External links==
==External links==
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* [https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/08/20/arts/design/20080820_BOSE_SLIDESHOW_index.html New York Times slideshow]
* [https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/08/20/arts/design/20080820_BOSE_SLIDESHOW_index.html New York Times slideshow]


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Padma Vibhushan
Nandalal Bose
Bose on a 1967 stamp of India
Born(1882-12-03)3 December 1882
Haveli Kharagpur, Bengal Presidency, British India
(now in Bihar, India)[1]
Died16 April 1966(1966-04-16) (aged 83)
Santiniketan, West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
Known forPainting
MovementContextual Modernism
SpouseSudhira Devi (1903)
RelativesGouri Bhanja (daughter)
Jamuna Sen (daughter)
Surendranath Kar (cousin)
AwardsPrincipal of Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan (1921), Padma Vibhushan (1954), Fellow of the Lalit Kala Academy (1954), Deshikottam (1952), honorary doctor of the University of Calcutta

Nandalal Bose (3 December 1882 – 16 April 1966) was one of the pioneers of modern Indian art and a key figure of Contextual Modernism.

A pupil of Abanindranath Tagore, Bose was known for his "Indian style" of painting. He became the principal of Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan in 1921. He was influenced by the Tagore family and the murals of Ajanta; his classic works include paintings of scenes from Indian mythologies, women, and village life.

Today, many critics consider his paintings among India's most important modern paintings.[2][3][4] In 1976, the Archaeological Survey of India, Department of Culture, Govt. of India declared his works among the "nine artists" whose work, "not being antiquities", were to be henceforth considered "to be art treasures, having regard to their artistic and aesthetic value".[5]

He was given the work of illustrating the constitution of India.

Early life

Nandalal Bose was born on 3 December 1882 in a middle-class Bengali family at Haveli Kharagpur, in Munger district of Bihar state. The family originally hailed from Jejur, Hooghly District of West Bengal.[6] His father, Purna Chandra Bose, was at that time working in the Darbhanga Estate.[7] His mother Khetramoni Devi was a housewife with a skill in improvising toys and dolls for young Nandalal. From his early days Nandalal began taking an interest in modelling images and later, decorating Puja pandals.

In 1898, at the age of fifteen, Nandalal moved to Calcutta for his high school studies in the Central Collegiate School. After clearing his examinations in 1902, he continued his college studies at the same institution. In June 1903 he married Sudhiradevi, the daughter of a family friend. Nanadalal wanted to study art, but he was not given permission by his family. Unable to qualify for promotion in his classes, Nandalal moved to other colleges, joining the Presidency College in 1905 to study commerce. After repeated failures, he persuaded his family to let him study art at Calcutta's School of Art.[8]

Career

Yama and Savitri, from a painting by Nandalal Bose, 1913
Kirat-Arjuna, 1914

As a young artist, Nandalal Bose was deeply influenced by the murals of the Ajanta Caves. He had become part of an international circle of artists and writers seeking to revive classical Indian culture; a circle that already included Okakura Kakuzō, William Rothenstein, Yokoyama Taikan, Christiana Herringham, Laurence Binyon, Abanindranath Tagore, and the seminal London Modernist sculptors Eric Gill and Jacob Epstein.[9][10]

To mark the 1930 occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's arrest for protesting the British tax on salt, Bose created a black on white linocut print of Gandhi walking with a staff. It became the iconic image for the non-violence movement.[citation needed]

Untitled by Nandalal Bose, 1954, Collage and ink on paper, DAG Museums

His genius and original style were recognised by artists and art critics like Gaganendranath Tagore, Ananda Coomaraswamy and O. C. Ganguli.[citation needed] These lovers of art felt that objective criticism was necessary for the development of painting and founded the Indian Society of Oriental Art.

He became principal of the Kala Bhavana (College of Arts) at Tagore's International University Santiniketan in 1921.[11]

He was also asked by Jawaharlal Nehru to sketch the emblems for the Government of India's awards, including the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Shri.[12] Along with his disciple Rammanohar, Nandalal Bose took up the task of beautifying/decorating the original manuscript of the Constitution of India.[13]

He died on 16 April 1966 in Santiniketan[14][15] of natural causes.[16]

Today, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi holds 7000 of his works in its collection, including a 1930 black and white linocut of the Dandi March depicting Mahatma Gandhi, and a set of seven posters he later made at the request of Mahatma Gandhi for the 1938 Haripura Session of the Indian National Congress.[17]

His place in Indian art

In his introduction for the Christie's catalogue, R. Siva Kumar wrote-[18]

Nandalal Bose (1882–1966) occupies a place in the history of Modern Indian art that combines those of Raphael and Durer in the history of the Renaissance. Like Raphael, Nandalal was a great synthesizer, his originality lay in his ability to marshal discrete ideas drawn from Abanindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, E. B. Havell, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Okakura Kakuzo and Mahatma Gandhi into a unique and unified programme for the creation of a new art movement in India. And like Durer he combined a passion bordering on devotion with an irrepressible analytical mind that compelled him to prise open different art traditions and unravel their syntactic logic, and make them accessible to a new generation of Indian artists. But he did this so quietly and without self-assertive fanfare that the significance of his work is yet to be fully grasped even in India.

Students

Some of his notable students were Benode Behari Mukherjee, Ramkinkar Baij, Beohar Rammanohar Sinha, K. G. Subramanyan, A. Ramachandran, Pratima Thakur, Jahar Dasgupta, Satyajit Ray, Dinkar Kaushik, Amritlal Vegad, Kiron Sinha, A.D.Jayathilake (1756).

Honours and awards

Nandalal Bose, who left a major imprint on Indian art, was the first recipient of a scholarship offered by the Indian Society of Oriental Art, founded in 1907.

In 1954, he became the first artist to be elected Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Art. In 1954, Nandalal Bose was awarded the Padma Vibhushan.

In 1957, the University of Calcutta conferred honorary D.Litt. on him.[19] Vishvabharati University honoured him by conferring on him the title of 'Deshikottama'.

The Academy of Fine Arts in Calcutta honoured Nandalal with the Silver Jubilee Medal. The Tagore Birth Centenary Medal was awarded to Nandalal Bose in 1965 by the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

Acharya Nandalal, an Indian documentary film on the artist was made by Harisadhan Dasgupta in 1984.[20]

Publications

Illustration of the poem Rikto (রিক্ত; Empty ) in Rabindranath Tagore's Chharar Chhabi (ছড়ার ছবি).
  • Drishti o srishti [Vision and the Creation] by Nandalal Bose, published by Visva-Bharati Granthana Vibhaga [ Edition Language - Bengali ]
  • Shilpa Charcha [ শিল্প চর্চা ] by Nandalal Bose, published April 1956 by Visva Bharati [ Edition Language - Bengali ]
  • Pictures from the life of buddha by Nandalal Bose
  • Rupavali by Nandalal Bose

References

  1. ^ C. H. Prahlada Rao (January 2014). "Nanadlal Bose". Rashtrotthana Sahitya.
  2. ^ "San Diego museum showcases Nandalal Bose". Rediff.com News. 25 June 2008.
  3. ^ Robert L. Pincus (15 March 2008). "The Art of Nandalal Bose' is first U.S. showcase for an Indian icon". Paramus Post. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2009.
  4. ^ Kamala Ganesh; Usha Thakkar (13 July 2005). Culture and the Making of Identity in Contemporary India. SAGE Publications. pp. 49–. ISBN 978-0-7619-3381-6.
  5. ^ Nine Masters "The Government Museum and Art Gallery Chandigarh, India". Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 28 January 2010. Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh. "Nine Masters: Rabindranath Tagore, Amrita Sher-Gil, Jamini Roy, Nandalal Bose, Raja Ravi Varma, Gaganendranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Sailoz Mookherjea, and Nicholas Roerich."
  6. ^ Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan by Anjali Bose, 1976, p. 236
  7. ^ C.H.Prahalada Rao; Litent (1 January 2014). Nandalal Bose. Litent. pp. 3–. GGKEY:D9L3P5T7YE4.
  8. ^ Dinkar k Kowshik (1985). Nandalal Bose, the doyen of Indian art. National Book Trust, India. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
  9. ^ Rupert Richard Arrowsmith, "The Transcultural Roots of Modernism: Imagist Poetry, Japanese Visual Culture, and the Western Museum System", Modernism/modernity Volume 18, Number 1, January 2011, 27–42. ISSN 1071-6068.
  10. ^ Video of a Lecture mentioning Bose in the context of Indian influences n global modernism, London University School of Advanced Study, March 2012.
  11. ^ Mandal, Panchanan (1968). Bharatshilpi Nandalal (in Bengali). Vol. 1 (1st ed.). Santiniketan: Rarh Gobeshona Parshad.
  12. ^ "Nandalal Bose paintings on display in U.S." The Hindu. 15 March 2008. Archived from the original on 18 March 2008.
  13. ^ "The Constitution of India". World Digital Library. 7 May 2009. Retrieved 9 December 2010.
  14. ^ Kumar, R. Siva (2003). "Bose, Nandalal". Grove Art Online. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T010273.
  15. ^ "National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi". ngmaindia.gov.in. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  16. ^ Chatterjee, Prerna (3 December 2018). "Celebrating Nandalal Bose, artist who rejected everything British & designed India's constitution". ThePrint. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  17. ^ "Bengal School of Art exhibition to open in US". The Economic Times. 24 June 2008.
  18. ^ "Nandalal Bose (1882-1966)".
  19. ^ "Annual Convocation". University of Calcutta. Archived from the original on 28 May 2012.
  20. ^ Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul (1999). Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema. British Film Institute. ISBN 9780851706696. Retrieved 12 August 2012.

Further reading

  • Nandalal Bose and Indian painting, by Ramyansu Sekhar Das. Tower Publishers, 1958.
  • Bharat Shilpi Nandalal, Volumes 1-4, (in Bengali) by Panchanan Mandal, Rarh Gobeshona Parshad, Santiniketan, 1968
  • Nandalal Bose: a collection of essays : centenary volume. Lalit Kala Akademi, 1983.
  • Nandalal Bose, the doyen of Indian art. (National biography), by Dinkar Kowshik. National Book Trust, India, 1985.
  • Rhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose, exhibition catalogue. Sonya Rhie Quintanilla. San Diego Museum of Art. 2008.

External links

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