Abanindranath Tagore(7 August 1871 – 5 December 1951) was the principal artist and creator of Indian Society of Oriental Art and the first major exponent ofswadeshivalues inIndian art, thereby founding the influentialBengal school of art, which led to the development ofmodern Indian painting[1][2]He was also a noted writer, particularly for children. Popularly known as Aban Thakur, his booksRajkahini, Budo Angla, Nalak,andKhirer Putulare landmarks inBengali languagechildrens literature.Tagore sought to moderniseMughalandRajputstyles in order to counter the influence ofWesternmodels of art, as taught in Art Schools under theBritish Rajand developed the Indian style of painting, later known asBengal school of art. Such was the success of Tagores work that it was eventually accepted and promoted asa national Indian style within British art institutions under the epithet of Indian Society of Oriental Art.Personal life and backgroundAbanindranath Tagore was born inJorasanko,Calcutta,British Indiato Gunendranath Tagore. His grandfather was Girindranath Tagore,the second son of Prince Dwarkanath Tagore. He was a member of the distinguishedTagore family, and a nephew of the poetRabindranath Tagore. His grandfather and his elder brotherGaganendranath Tagorewere also artists.Tagore learned art when studying atSanskrit College, Kolkata in the 1880s. Around the age of twenty years of age, in 1890, Abanindranath attended theCalcutta School of Artwhere he learnt to use pastels from O. Ghilardi, and oil painting from Charles Palmer, European painters who taught in that institution.[3]In 1889 he married Suhasini Devi, daughter of Bhujagendra Bhusan Chatterjee, a descendant ofPrasanna Coomar Tagore. At this time he leftthe Sanskrit College after nine years of study and studied English as a special student atSt. Xaviers College, which he attended for about a year and a half.He had a sister Sunayani Devi.
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