Veteran artist Manu Parekh on the artwork that can help children discover Rabindranath Tagore anew | Parenting News,The Indian Express
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ARTWORK: Head series ARTIST: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) WHERE CAN IT BE SEEN: National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
WHY?
A polymath, it was when he was in his 70s that Rabindranath Tagore took to painting. I still remember the first time I saw a work from his Head series at the Town Hall in Ahmedabad in 1963. At 82, I am still spellbound by it as I was back then.
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One should study his portraits because of the sheer clarity of depiction and humanism they reflect. The quality exists in works of several artists of the Bengal School, but there was a unique element in the Tagore portraits — there was an affection with which he saw and painted his protagonists, which probably came from the fact that he was also a writer. His first solo exhibition was at Galerie Pigalle in Paris in 1930, where they were extremely well-received.
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