{"id":124344,"date":"2021-08-07T20:14:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T14:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=124344"},"modified":"2021-08-11T17:29:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T11:59:52","slug":"celebrations-begin-to-mark-150-years-of-iconic-artist-abanindranath-tagore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/celebrations-begin-to-mark-150-years-of-iconic-artist-abanindranath-tagore\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrations begin to mark 150 years of iconic artist Abanindranath Tagore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/celebrations-begin-to-mark-150-years-of-iconic-artist-abanindranath-tagore\/article35766597.ece#:~:text='His%20unique%20interpretation%20of%20swadeshi,a%20revival%20of%20Indian%20art'&amp;text=A%20collection%20of%20Abanindranath%20Tagore,off%20on%20August%207%2C%202021.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the news?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Victoria Memorial Hall and DAG have collaborated to commemorate the 150<sup>th<\/sup> year birth anniversary of the prominent artist of Bengal school of Art &#8211; Abanindranath Tagore.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Abanindranath Tagore:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Abanindranath Tagore, the nephew of Rabindranath Tagore, was one of the most prominent artists of the Bengal school of art in India.<\/li>\n<li>He was the first major supporter of swadeshi values in Indian art.\n<ul>\n<li>He first <strong>created the \u2018Indian Society of Oriental Art\u2019<\/strong> and later went on to <strong>establish the Bengal school of art<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Specialty of his paintings<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>To counter the western influence of art, he <strong>modernized Mughal &amp; Rajput styles to give rise to modern Indian painting<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>He shaped modern Indian art by giving a unique shape to Swadeshi themes and created a new awakening.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBharat Mata\u201d painting was one of the most iconic works of Abanindranath Tagore.<\/li>\n<li>His other famous paintings include The Passing of Shah Jahan (1900), My Mother (1912\u201313), Fairyland illustration (1913), Journey\u2019s End (circa 1913).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindu What is the news? Victoria Memorial Hall and DAG have collaborated to commemorate the 150th year birth anniversary of the prominent artist of Bengal school of Art &#8211; Abanindranath Tagore. About Abanindranath Tagore: Abanindranath Tagore, the nephew of Rabindranath Tagore, was one of the most prominent artists of the Bengal school of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/celebrations-begin-to-mark-150-years-of-iconic-artist-abanindranath-tagore\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Celebrations begin to mark 150 years of iconic artist Abanindranath Tagore<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[2148,8962,8960,8961],"class_list":["post-124344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-abanindranath-tagore","tag-bengal-school-of-art","tag-paintings","tag-significant-personalities","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700809428,"cached_date":1704789971},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}