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	GAGANENDRANATH TAGORE - Indian Art Circle
		In this family of artists, was born on 18th of September, 1867, Gaganendranath Tagore, nephew of Rabindranath, at Jorasanko, at the Tagore Family Home.
		Gaganendranath is counted, along with his brother Abanindranath, as one of the earliest practitioners of modern art in India.
		Rabindranath Tagore, his uncle commented on his art, thus, in 1938: "What profoundly attracted me was the uniqueness of his creation, a lively curiosity in his constant experiments, and some mysterious depth in their imaginative value.
	www.indianartcircle.com /arteducation/tagore.shtml (479 words)

	Abanindranath Tagore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Tagore sought to modernize Moghul and Rajput traditions in order to counter the influence of Western models of art, as taught in Art Schools under the British Raj.
		Tagore was a member of the distinguished Bengali family, and a nephew of the poet Rabindranath Tagore.
		Tagore believed that Western art was "materialistic" in character, and that India needed to return to its own traditions in order to recover spiritual values.
	en.encyclopediahome.com /wiki/Abanindranath_Tagore (551 words)

	Gaganendranath Tagore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gaganendranath Tagore (Bengali: গগনেন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর) (September 18, 1867--1938) was an Indian painter and cartoonist of the Bengal school.
		Along with his brother Abanindranath Tagore, he was counted as one of the earliest modern artists in India.
		He was a nephew of Nobel Prize winning poet Rabindranath Tagore.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaganendranath_Tagore (79 words)

	Gaganendranath Tagore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Born on 18th of September, 1867 at Jorasanko, Gaganendranath is regarded as one of the "foremost exponents of a superbly creative phase in Indian art".
		Gaganendranath was also inspired by the experimentalist art of modern Europe and was drawn towards geometric composition in his paintings.
		Commenting on Gaganendranath's art, Rabindranath Tagore wrote in 1938: "What profoundly attracted me was the uniqueness of his creation, a lively curiosity in his constant experiments, and some mysterious depth in their imaginative value.
	userpages.umbc.edu /~achatt1/Bio/gagan.html (210 words)

	Tagore Sir Rabindranath: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Tagore drew on the classical literature of India, especially the ancient Sanskrit scriptures and the writings of Kalidasa.
		Tagore was fortunate in both the time and the place of his birth...and regard for the values of the East.
		A nephew of Rabindranath, Gaganendranaths trenchant...drawings by Gagenendranath Tagore...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/tagore-sir-rabindranath.jsp?l=T (1293 words)

	The Tribune...Sunday Reading
		Tagore’s calligraphy was exquisite and the doodles he made stemmed from his desire to turn ugly disordered deletions into order imposed by rhythm.
		Though Tagore began to pursue the art of painting with passion only towards the last decades of his life, he had always attempted to sketch and to "dabble" with painting.
		In the arena of art, Tagore believed that Indian artists should "vehemently deny their obligation to produce something that can be labelled as Indian art"; on the contrary, they had to broaden their outlook to encompass the arts of the world and enlarge upon it through their personal vision.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99dec12/sunday/head5.htm (804 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Bengal Art
		Gaganendranath Tagore, Jamini Roy and rabindranath tagore are among the best known of these artists.
		Gaganendranath, the elder bother of Abanindranath, was the first genuine cartoon artist in India to comment upon political and social realities.
		Though Rabindranath Tagore started his sporadic attempts at painting in the 1920s, it was in the next decade that he appeared as a major painter in India.
	banglapedia.org /HT/B_0400.HTM (2173 words)

	Delhi Art Gallery :Delhi Art Gallery : GAGANENDRANATH TAGORE (18th September, 1867 - 14th February,1938) ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Gaganendranath was one of the first modern painter of India.
		Gaganendranath was influenced and inspired by Japanese Art after coming in contact with Kakuzo Okakura and some other Japanese artists who came to India in 1902.
		Gaganendranath, through his experimental play with brush and colour, captured the charming capriciousness of refracted light.
	www.delhiartgallery.com /artist/profile.aspx?artistid=110 (468 words)

	ARTISTS PROFILES
		Tagore became an artist relatively late in his life, and held his first exhibition at the Gallery Pigalle in Paris, as late as in 1930.
		Tagore taught at the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata, between 1905 and 1915 and established the Indian School of Oriental Art in Kolkata, in 1907.
		Tagore's major solo exhibitions include the Congress Industrial Exhibition, Kolkata, in 1901, and the 22nd Exhibition of the Societe des Peintres that traveled to Belgium, Holland and England.
	saffronart.com /auction/auctions02/artists_profile.asp (7923 words)

	Selected Short Stories of Rabindranath Tagore - A Review [Parabaas Translation]
		Tagore easily intermingled stark realism and poetic idealism in his stories which reflected the contemporary life in rural and urban Bengal.
		Thompson wrote in Tagore's obituary in 1941: "More and more he toned down or omitted whatever seemed to him characteristically Indian, which very often was what was gripping and powerful.
		Tagore's creations were obscured and partly forgotten for so long mainly due to inadequate translations of his writings.
	www.parabaas.com /translation/database/reviews/tagoreshortstories1.html (887 words)

	India Heritage :: Creative Arts :: Painting :: Modern Indian Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Tagore believed that Western art was "materialistic" in character, and that India needed to return to its own traditions in order to recover spiritual values..
		Gaganendranath Tagore, (1867-1938) painter and art connoisseur was the older sibling of Abanindranath.
		Gaganendranath may be considered the harbinger of modern art in its various dimensions.
	www.indiaheritage.org /creative/creative_modern_indian_art.htm (1942 words)

	Abanindranath Tagore -- A Survey of the Master’s Life and Work
		Abanindranath Tagore (1871-1951), was the first modern Indian artist to have successfully inculcated amongst his band of illustrious students a sense of belonging and allegiance to the rich tradition of Indian cultural heritage.
		Abanindranath Tagore, C. E., the famous artist of modern India, was born in Calcutta on August 7, 1871, at the Jorasanko residence of the Tagore family, 5, Dwarkanath Tagore Lane.
		His eldest brother Gaganendranath was also an artist of repute, and the next brother is Samarendranath Tagore who is of a studious and retiring disposition.
	www.chitralekha.org /abanindranath.htm (3690 words)

	BookReview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Debendranath Tagore did not like Madhusudan much due to his anglicized leanings.
		From the Tagore household, there were Gaganendranath Tagore and Dijendranath Tagore who certified him that came handy for his being accepted in the mainstream.
		Rabindranath's father Debendranath Tagore wrote in a letter to Rajnarayan Basu about his Meghnad Badh Kabya: "On the whole the book is doing well.
	www.netguruindia.com /bookreview/bangla/korak.html (366 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 439 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Tagore joked that Raphael, the famous Renaissance painter, had nothing to fear from him.
		Tagore repeatedly advised the move for something new and with the times.
		Tagore was bent on doing something unique in the world of fine arts, going by his letters to his friends and family.
	www.thedailystar.net /2005/08/20/d508201401104.htm (499 words)

	Auctions play to the gallery as serious art suffers
		A water-colour on paper by Gaganendranath Tagore of his cubistic series, in fl and white, sold for nearly Rs 4.8 lakh, while one of his anti-war cartoons fetched Rs 2.2 lakh.
		Chughatai with a more revivalist stance than either Gaganendranath or Nandalal, sold a major work at over Rs 10 lakh, but the price he commands per square cm is close to that of Jamini Roy who has never made it as high as he should because of his atelier production.
		In the June 1995 auction of Christie's, Gaganendranath Tagore was not included but in June 1997, a small work of his sold for Rs 2.6 lakh, fetching a per square cm price of Rs 521.64.
	www.expressindia.com /fe/daily/19980619/17055294.html (928 words)

	Tagore - Rabindranath Tagore on education - Kathleen M. O'Connell
		The Tagore Festival is celebrated in honor of the life and work of Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941.
		Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7 May 1861 (25 Baishakh, 1268 in the Bangla Rabindranath was the youngest of Debendranath Tagore's fourteen children.
		TAGORE, SIR RABINDRANATH [Tagore, Sir Rabindranath], 1861-1941, Indian author and guru, b.
	lineseek.com /?q=tagore (206 words)

	Gaganendranath's cartoons selling at Rs 1 lakh
		Thisis strange when leading artists from Gaganendranath Tagore to M F Husainhave produced cartoons on varied subjects and of excellent quality.
		Gaganendranath Tagore's cartoons, on the other hand, concentrate on thewhole of the image, reminiscent of Central European cartoonists like BrunoPaul, Max Beckmann and others, but with a bolder execution reflecting theKalighat scroll-painters.
		A good Gaganendranath cartoon-and one that can befirmly said to be an original, for there are fakes enough-can be priced atclose to Rs 1 lakh or more today.
	www.expressindia.com /fe/daily/20000404/fpe02026.html (815 words)

	Indian Wedding Cards, Wedding invitations, Books and Music
		The small town of Birbhum district, Shantinekatan, the dream of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore is a place where you must visit to know the richness of Bengal vis-à-vis its culture and intellectual characteristics of the state.
		In 1901, Rabindranath Tagore set up a Bramhacharya school here which later came to be known as the Patha Bhavan.
		Tagore envisioned a center of learning which would have the best of both the east and the west.
	www.deshvidesh.com /issues/desh606/westbengal.htm (1209 words)

	The Financial Express: Talking Money
		When we look at the prices their works were sold at in recent art auctions in New York City and New Delhi, our contention that tastes do not change in art as in fashion stands confirmed.
		Rabindranath Tagore, whose works came up for sale recently in Delhi, is still among our highest priced artists.
		Today, three drawings of Tagore’s that came up for sale were bid for up to Rs 5 lakh (Rs 520.83 per sq.
	www.financialexpress.com /fe20011202/talk2.html (624 words)

	Santiniketan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Attracted by the beauty of this place, Rabindranath Tagore's father Maehashi Debendranath Tagore established Shantiniketan (abode of peace) in 1863.
		In 1901, Rabindranath Tagore set up a Bramhacharya school here which later came to be known as the Patha Bhavan.
		Tagore envisioned a center of learning which would have the best of both the east and the west.
	www.wb.nic.in /westbg/shanti.html (1263 words)

	Christie's auction mirrors the real market
		Basically, this reflects the evolution of the modern art of India, with one of Gaganendranath's Cubistic watercolours of the '20s (I place the birth of our modern art at this period) selling at the highest price per sq.
		It is no accident that Gaganendranath, the father of our contemporary artistic expression, was also a sharp critic of British colonialism.
		So, we could follow up the first core group of the six artists: Gaganendranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, A R Chughtai, Jamini Roy, Ganesh Pyne and M F Husain, with a second group of K K Hebbar, Anjolie Ela Menon, N S Bendre, J Swaminathan, Manjit Bawa, V S Gaitonde, Akbar Padamsee and S H Raza.
	www.expressindia.com /fe/daily/19980611/16255584.html (874 words)

	South Asia and the Himalayan Region, 1900 A.D.–present \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) founds a school for teaching the traditional arts of India called Santiniketan; by 1920, this school defines itself as an alternative to the Calcutta Art School.
		Tagore's nephew Abanindranath (1871–1951) leads the Bengal School of painting—he paints the overtly nationalist Bharat Mata in 1905 that garners praise from these writers.
		Rabindranath Tagore's (1861–1941) expressionist paintings are exhibited in Europe, America, and the Soviet Union.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/11/ssa/ht11ssa.htm (2935 words)

	Art Guide - Overview of Indian Art
		Rabindranath Tagore, also a poet and Nobel laureate, allied with the school's general goals, but preferred to devote himself to his more personal and universal vision, though one that was expressed in paintings executed in strikingly modernist terms.
		It is his studies of the Santhal tribals, with their sharp angular lines and clear colours, which indicated the possible direction that must be taken to discover an indigenous idiom and sensibility.
		Gaganendranath Tagore was another artist to follow his personal impulses, freely responding to artistic influences from all directions, including from the derided West, and choosing to delineate the hypocrisies of the society around him.
	www.saffronart.com /indianart.html (1862 words)

	Vangiya Sahitya Parishad : Banglapedia Article:Boi-Mela
		In 1894 romesh chunder dutt was the President of the society while rabindranath tagore and nabinchandra sen were its vice Presidents.
		A special meeting of the society was held on 19 February 1899 with dwijendranath tagore on the chair to consider the necessity of establishing a building of its own.
		Among the members Romesh Chunder Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore, Nabin Chandra Sen, Debendranath Mukherji, Roy Jatindranath Chowdhury, satyendranath tagore, jyotirindranath tagore, gaganendranath tagore, Rajanikanta Gupta, Ramendrasundar Trivedi, Debendra Prasad Ghosh, Narendra Nath Mitra, Amrita Krishna Mallick, Suresh Chandra Samajpati, Dwijendra Nath Bose were most prominent.
	www.boi-mela.com /Banglapedia/ViewArticle.asp?TopicRef=5588 (653 words)

	Culture and Festivals - Popular Indian painting, contemporary folk and tribal art
		Ironically the very westernisation that the Kalighat painters felt eroded Bengali society eventually affected the artists themselves, and this popular style of Indian painting disappeared at the beginning of the 20th century to be replaced by newly invented photography and a new search for Indian identity.
		It was the artistic imagination in particular of the cartoonist Gaganendranath Tagore, nephew of the poet Rabindranath Tagore, who also captured the double standards of a colonised society.
		This illustration highlights the hypocritical role of the overweight four-armed Brahmin priest; who rather than maintaining his status of priestly purity, is seated on the floor eating a plate of meat, with a woman in his arms and a bottle of alcohol by his side.
	www.movinghere.org.uk /galleries/histories/asian/culture/painting2.htm (420 words)

	BookReview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The three brothers are Gaganendranath Tagore, Samarendranath Tagore and Abanindranath Tagore.
		The famous Tagore house at Jorasanko originally consisted of two palatial buildings-one at 5, D.N. Tagore Lane and the other at 6, D.N Tagore Lane.
		Samar and Aban Tagore are leaving their seventy years' residence and artistic source.
	www.netguruindia.com /bookreview/bangla/varandah.html (432 words)

	Finding an expression of its own
		As Tagore and his friends drew closer to the national movement, they could not avoid coming to terms with the aesthetics of those who were the backbone of the struggle against the British.
		We can see a powerful link between Gaganendranath Tagore's savage lampooning of imperialism and its brown-skinned agents, both the countrified zamindars and the anglicised bureaucratic elite, and the evolution of an unconventional vision of Cubism that was his own.
		AFTER the initial breakthrough of a modern approach in art by Bengal masters like Gaganendranath, Nandalal, Rabindranath and Ram Kinkar, it was left to artists like Jamini Roy, M.F. Husain, K.H. Ara, S. Raza F. Souza, V. Gaitonde and a host of others to fill in the spaces the Bengal artists had indicated.
	www.hindu.com /fline/fl1418/14180690.htm (1589 words)

	A Poet's Dream: Discovery of Tagore Texts - by Shailesh Parekh
		I believe he has the wealth of information and insight as well as the knack for presenting the poignant and multifaceted message of Tagore to a person for whom the language of Tagore was alien.
		At the Parishad, Tagore had delivered an outstanding lecture titled `Construction vs. Creation’ which was later published in `Lectures and Addresses of Rabindranath Tagore’ selected by Anthony X. Soares, Professor of English Literature, The College, Baroda, in 1928.
		Another accidental discovery during the course of the publication of ‘Tagore in Ahmedabad’ pertains to a lecture Tagore delivered in 1930 in Baroda under the title of `Man the Artist’.
	www.parabaas.com /rabindranath/articles/pShailesh.html (1354 words)

	Art India \| Lead Essay \| Lasting Impressions (Page 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The three brothers, Abanindranath, Gaganendranath, and Samarendranath (nephews of Rabindranath Tagore) transformed the south veranda of their Jorasanko residence into an art mecca.
		They began to host regular art salons and their home became the meeting venue for members of the informal Bichitra Club: this was where new styles of painting and printmaking were explored.
		For the first time, artists such as Gaganendranath Tagore and Nandalal Bose began to practise printmaking as an interventionist activity.
	www.artindiamag.com /2006/q1/Lead_Essay/p2 (1146 words)

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