Portfolio - Bengal School of Painting - Album I

Author: Asok K BhattacharyaPhotographer(s): Debashis Gayen/ Ramananda BandyopadhyayPublisher: Indian Museum CalcuttaYear: 2006Language: EnglishPages: 14ISBN/UPC (if available): N/A DescriptionIn the middle of the final decade of the nineteeth century two independent events silently took place in Kolkata: Abanindranath Tagore, a young painter in his early twenties, drew a few fragile miniatures depicting the mythical romance of Radha and Krishna; and E.B. Havell, an English artist in his mid-thirties came from Chennai to take charge of the Government School of Art and Craft as its principal. These two persons, born at places thousands of miles apart and brought up in two different socio-cultural milieu, had many a characteristic that distinguished them individually. But such was the compulsion of a common realization regarding the Indian art of the time that they joined hands to change its course towards a direction which was, in a sense, diametrically opposite to the prevailing current