1. Nandalal Bose was one of the pioneers of modern Indian art and a key figure of Contextual Modernism.
15 Facts About Nandalal Bose
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Nandalal Bose became the principal of Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan in 1921.
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Nandalal Bose 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.
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Nandalal Bose was given the work of illustrating the Constitution of India.
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Nandalal Bose was born on 3 December 1882 in a middle-class Bengali family at Haveli Kharagpur, in Munger district of Bihar state.
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Nandalal Bose's mother Khetramoni Devi was a housewife with a skill in improvising toys and dolls for young Nandalal.
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From his early days Nandalal Bose began taking an interest in modelling images and later, decorating Puja pandals.
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In 1898, at the age of fifteen, Nandalal Bose moved to Calcutta for his high school studies in the Central Collegiate School.
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Unable to qualify for promotion in his classes, Nandalal Bose moved to other colleges, joining the Presidency College in 1905 to study commerce.
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Nandalal Bose had become part of an international circle of artists and writers seeking to revive classical Indian culture; a circle that already included Okakura Kakuzo, William Rothenstein, Yokoyama Taikan, Christiana Herringham, Laurence Binyon, Abanindranath Tagore, and the seminal London Modernist sculptors Eric Gill and Jacob Epstein.
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Nandalal Bose became principal of the Kala Bhavana at Tagore's International University Santiniketan in 1921.
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Nandalal Bose was asked by Jawaharlal Nehru to sketch the emblems for the Government of India's awards, including the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Shri.
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Nandalal Bose died on 16 April 1966 in Santiniketan of natural causes.
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Nandalal Bose occupies a place in the history of Modern Indian art that combines those of Raphael and Durer in the history of the Renaissance.
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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.