10 Lines on Nandalal Bose and Biography
1 Nandlal Bose was born on 3 december 1882. He was one of the pioneers of modern Indian art and was known for his “Indian style” of painting. From his early days Nandalal began taking an interest in modelling images and later, decorating Puja pandals.
2 In 1898, at the age of fifteen, Nandalal moved to Calcutta for his high school studies in the Central Collegiate School. He cleared his examinations in 1902 and he continued his college studies at the same institution.
3 He was a pupil of Abanindranath Tagore. He was influenced by the Tagore family and the murals of Ajanta.
4 His classic works include paintings of scenes from Indian mythologies, women, and village life. His paintings are among India’s most important modern paintings.
5 In 1905, he went to Presidency College to study commerce as his family was opposed to studying art, but he persuaded his family to let him study art at Calcutta’s School of Art.
6 As a young artist, Nandalal Bose was deeply influenced by the murals of the Ajanta Caves. To revive classical Indian culture,he had become part of an international circle of artists and writers seeking a circle that included Okakura Kakuzō, William Rothenstein, Yokoyama Taikan, Christiana Herringham, Laurence Binyon, Abanindranath Tagore, and the seminal London Modernist sculptors Eric Gill and Jacob Epstein.
7 His genius and original style were recognised by artists and art critics like Gaganendranath Tagore, Ananda Coomaraswamy and O. C. Ganguli.
8 In 1921, He became principal of the Kala Bhavana (College of Arts) at Tagore’s International University Santiniketan.
9 He became the principal of Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan in 1921.
10 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.
11 He was given the work of illustrating the constitution of India. 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. Nandalal Bose and his disciple Rammanohar took up the task of beautifying the original manuscript of the Constitution of India.
12 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.
13 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 and more.
14In June 1903 he married Sudhiradevi, the daughter of a family friend.
15 Nandalal Bose died in 16 April 1966.
Nandalal Bose Biography
| Born | 3 December 1882 |
| Place of Birth | Haveli Kharagpur, Bihar |
| Occupation | Artist , Painting |
| Alma mater | Calcutta’s School of Art |
| Parents | Purna Chandra Bose and Khetramoni Devi |
| Wife | Sudhira Devi |
Awards
1 Nandalal Bose, was the first recipient of a scholarship offered by the Indian Society of Oriental Art, founded in 1907.
2 In 1954, he became the first artist to be elected Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi, India’s National Academy of Art.
3 In 1954, Nandalal Bose was awarded the Padma Vibhushan.
4 In 1957, the University of Calcutta conferred honorary D.Litt. on him.
5 Vishvabharati University honoured him by conferring on him the title of ‘Deshikottama’.