The Bengal School and Cultural Nationalism — Revision Notes
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Company School of Painting
- Company School of Painting was a mixture of traditional Indian and European painting styles.
- It developed when British officers commissioned local artists to paint scenes of people, customs, plants, animals, and landscapes.
- Artists often came from former courts such as Murshidabad, Lucknow, or Delhi.
Raja Ravi Varma and Academic Realism
- Raja Ravi Varma was a self-taught artist from the Travancore Court in Kerala.
- He mastered academic realism in oil painting by studying European paintings.
- He painted scenes from the Ramayana and Mahabharata.
Bengal School of Art and Cultural Nationalism
- The Bengal School of Art was associated with the Swadeshi movement and originated in Calcutta.
- The term Bengal School of Art is not fully accurate because the movement was not limited to Bengal alone.
- Abanindranath Tagore spearheaded the movement.
Shantiniketan, Kala Bhavana, and Nandalal Bose
- Rabindranath Tagore founded Visva-Bharati University at Shantiniketan.
- Kala Bhavana was India's first national art school.
- Nandalal Bose, a student of Abanindranath Tagore, was invited by Rabindranath Tagore to head the painting department at Kala Bhavana.
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