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The Bengal School and Cultural Nationalism

CBSE · Class 12 · Fine Arts

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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