Biography of abanindranath tagore bharat mata

painting by Abanindranath Tagore

Bharat Mata is a work painted by the Indian painter Abanindranath Tagore in However, the painting was first painted by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in the s.

Biography of abanindranath tagore bharat mata

The work depicts a saffron-clad woman, dressed like a sadhvi, holding a book, sheaves of paddy, a piece of white cloth, and a rudraksha garland (mala) in her four hands. The painting was the first illustrated depiction of the concept and was painted with Swadesh ideals during the larger Indian Independence movement.

A nephew of the Indian poet and artist Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath was exposed at an early age to the artistic inclinations of the Tagore family.

Tagore had been exposed to learning art when he first studied at the Sanskrit College in Kolkata in the s.

In his early years, Tagore had painted in the European naturalistic style, evident from his early paintings such as The Armoury. In about or , Tagore's relative Gyanadanandini Devi had set u