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3 unusual facts about Nandalal Bose


Nandalal Bose

Like Raphael Nandalal was a great synthesizer, his originality lay in his ability to marshal discrete ideas drawn from Abanindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, E. B. Havell, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Okakura Kakuzo and Mahatma Gandhi into a unique and unified programme for the creation of a new art movement in India.

He had become part of an international circle of artists and writers seeking to revive classical Indian culture; a circle that already included Okakura Kakuzō, William Rothenstein, Yokoyama Taikan, Christiana Herringham, Laurence Binyon, Abanindranath Tagore, and the seminal London Modernist sculptors Eric Gill and Jacob Epstein.

Sabujpatra

It was named Sabujpatra as its cover page was illustraded by a green palmleaf drawn by Nandalal Bose and on other colors was used ever.



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Kalipada Ghoshal

In the year 1920 Kalipada went to Jorasanko thakurbari (the residence of Rabindranath Tagore) with Nandalal Bose where he met the art teacher Abanindranath Tagore.