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The Art of Rabindranath Tagore
B orn in Calcutta into a wealthy Brahmo family, Rabindranath Tagore went on to become one of the most revered poet-philosophers of his time. In , he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first non-Westerner to be honoured with the award. A poet, author, playwright and artist, Tagore's creative output was immense. What began as doodling on his working manuscripts became an obsession after and continued throughout the last ten years of his life. Two of his works will go on sale as part of Sotheby's Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art sale in London on 23 October.
The human face is a noticeable constant in Tagore’s output. As a writer par excellence, he connected human appearance with emotions and essence, something which transcended to his art as well. Tagore’s faces reveal a myriad of moods: melancholic, mysterious, menacing, melodramatic, and romantic.
Tagore’s work in general is imbued with sadness. His mother passed away when h
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RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Poet, novelist, musician, playwright, and Asia’s first Nobel Prize awardee—which he won for literature in —Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7 May , and took to painting and drawing only in his sixties.
His paintings, with their intense, semi-expressionist faces of men and women inhabiting a twilight world and a nebulous dreamscape, conveying suppressed emotions and a deep, brooding interiority, had no national connection but belonged to the modern international diction of painting.
Tagore’s paintings represented a break with himself as a poet and philosopher. His belief in harmony, ultimate goodness and beauty of mankind and the world, appeared in direkt dissonance with the subject of his paintings, with the latter subverting the former.
Representing a distinct break from the Indian classical tradition and the Bengal School—initiated by his nephew Abanindranath Tagore and enriched by other members of his family—Tagore’s paintings and drawings reflected the inom
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Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher, writer and novelist (–)
For the film, see Rabindranath Tagore (film).
"Tagore" redirects here. For other uses, see Tagore (disambiguation).
Rabindranath ThakurFRAS (Bengali:[roˈbindɾonatʰˈʈʰakuɾ];[1] anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore; 7 May [2]&#;– 7 August [3]) was an Indian Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance.[4][5][6] He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali. In , Tagore became the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; where his elegant prose a