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Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher, and writer (1861–1941)

For the film, see Rabindranath Tagore (film).

"Tagore" redirects here. For other uses, see Tagore (disambiguation).

Rabindranath ThakurFRAS (Bengali:[roˈbindɾonatʰˈʈʰakuɾ];[1] anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore; 7 May 1861[2] – 7 August 1941[3]) was an Indian Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance.[4][5][6] He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali. In 1913, Tagore became the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; where his elegant prose and magical poetry were widely popular in the Indian subcontinent. He was a fellow of t

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RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Poet, novelist, musician, playwright, and Asia’s first Nobel Prize awardee—which he won for literature in 1913—Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7 May 1861, and took to painting and drawing only in his sixties.

His paintings, with their intense, semi-expressionist faces of men and women inhabiting a twilight world and a nebulous dreamscape, conveying suppressed emotions and a deep, brooding interiority, had no national connection but belonged to the modern international diction of painting.

Tagore’s paintings represented a break with himself as a poet and philosopher. His belief in harmony, ultimate goodness and beauty of mankind and the world, appeared in direct dissonance with the subject of his paintings, with the latter subverting the former.

Representing a distinct break from the Indian classical tradition and the Bengal School—initiated by his nephew Abanindranath Tagore and enriched by other members of his family—Tagore’s paintings and drawings reflected the influence of artists like Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Gerhard Marx, Georg Muche, Nicholas R

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The Grand Old Indian Painter: Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was one of the most influential and popular figures of his time. With his intellect and wisdom, he influenced and inspired many people. He was the first Non-European and Indian who received a Nobel Prize for literature in the year 1913. Being born into a rich and elite family, he was home tutored by many good tutors and his siblings. Though he has ventured into different and diverse forms of art throughout his life like he is a well-known Indian painter and best known for his poetry and short stories.

He started painting at the age of sixty. But, he was a prolific painter and even though he started his journey in the field of painting after completing 60 years of his age. He was associated with Brahmo Samaj and reformed the society with his essays, dramas, novels, and philosopher.

Doodling the Unimaginable

Tagore didn’t start to paint altogether. His first adventure in art was doodling. Generally, he would write something and cut across the lines. He would then try to fill up the overwritin

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