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mechanical drawing Two Cut Sunflowers -nn04- Une Sibylle -df02- The Shore at Egmond-an-Zee Ventnor,isle of Wight -46- are wushipu xiamen Femme de Constantinople debout -32- Last Supper -study- gfgggf christmas scenery Deerstalking The Good Samaritan Waiting for the Start -44- Westside The Absinthe Drinker Lauderdalelakes La Mere Jeronima de la Fuente -df02- Lake Annecy Harwich Lighthouse Woman in Lace Old Man and Young Boy -08- Apollo and Daphne Livomo new creature Sunset Sketchbook -17- Grenoble The portrait of Isabella Still Life with Instruments Youth with a Flower Basket St Lucy -Griffoni Polyptych- dfg William Callow Adoration of the Shepherds zg Master of the Legend Atlante fgh Prudence Portrait of Ippolito de Medici The Last Supper -detail- aas Woman Playing the cittern Three Russian Dancers Le Chemin de Fer,Gare Saint-Lazare -40- Amorous Old Woman and Young Man gjkh
Abanindranath Tagore:
Indian, 1871-1951,Painter and writer, brother of Gaganendranath Tagore. Intermittently taught by two undistinguished European academicians, Olinto Ghilardy and Charles Palmer, in 1897 he came under the influence of Ernest Binfield Havell (see HAVELL,), art scholar and catalyst of indigenism. Impressed by Mughal and Persian miniatures and the work of the Japanese artists Taikan Yokoyama and Shunso Hishida, who visited India in 1903, Abanindranath discarded Western realism for the stylized naturalism of Japanese art, which suited his poetic temperament, and the general John Ruskin-William Morris thought axis of such early indigenist theorists as Havell and Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy. His work until the Omar Khayyam illustrations (1906-10; Santiniketan, Nandan Mus.), with their revivalist nationalism and fin-de-siecle affectations, greatly influenced the Neo-Bengal art movement formed chiefly by his pupils at the Calcutta Art School, where he was Vice-principal from 1905 to 1915. His own later work developed an imagist focus. The Arabian Nights series (1930; Calcutta, Babindra-Bharati Soc.), his magnum opus, in which literary and visual antecedents give the image a cultural ambience without intruding on its independence, marks the beginning of modern Indian narrative painting. His aesthetic theories, formulated in lectures he gave as the Vageswari Professor of Art at Calcutta University (1921-9), stressed the role of individual sensibility and imagination in creativity. Induced by his uncle Rabindranath,








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