Nandalal Bose - wikipedia Nandalal Bose Nandalal Bose নন্দলাল বসু ( 1882 - 12 - 03 ) 3 December 1882 Kharagpur, Munger, Bengal Presidency, British India ( now Bihar, India ) 16 April 1966 ( 1966 - 04 - 16 ) ( aged 83 ) Calcutta, West Bengal, India Nationality Indian Known for Painting Movement Contextual Modernism Yama and Savitri, from a painting by Nandalal Bose. Nandalal Bose ( Nondo - lal Boshū ) ( 3 December 1882 -- 16 April 1966 ) was one of the pioneers of modern Indian art and a key figure of Contextual Modernism. A pupil of Abanindranath Tagore, Bose was known for his `` Indian style '' of painting. He became the principal of Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan in 1922. He was influenced by the Tagore family and the murals of Ajanta ; his classic works include paintings of scenes from Indian mythologies, women, and village life. Today, many critics consider his paintings among India 's most important modern paintings. In 1976, the Archaeological Survey of India, Department of Culture, Govt. of India declared his works among the `` nine artists '' whose work, `` not being antiquities '', were to be henceforth considered `` to be art treasures, having regard to their artistic and aesthetic value ''. He was given the work of illustrating the constitution of India Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 His place in Indian Art 4 Students 5 Honours and awards 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links Early life Nandalal was born on 3 December 1882 in a middle - class Bengali family of Kharagpur, in, Munger district of Bihar state. His father, Purnachandra Bose, was at that time working in the Darbhanga Estate. His mother Kshetramonidevi was a housewife with a skill in improvising toys and dolls for young Nandalal. From his early days Nandalal began taking an interest in modelling images and later, decorating Puja pandals. In 1898, at the age of fifteen, Nandalal moved to Calcutta for his high school studies in the Central Collegiate School. After clearing his examinations in 1902, he continued his college studies at the same institution. In June 1903 he married Sudhiradevi, the daughter of a family friend. Nanadalal wanted to study art, but he was not given permission by his family. Unable to qualify for promotion in his classes, Nandalal moved to other colleges, joining the Presidency College in 1905 to study commerce. After repeated failures, he persuaded his family to let him study art at Calcutta 's School of Art. Career As a young artist, Nandalal Bose was deeply influenced by the murals of the Ajanta Caves. He had become part of an international circle of artists and writers seeking to revive classical Indian culture ; a circle that already included Okakura Kakuzō, William Rothenstein, Yokoyama Taikan, Christiana Herringham, Laurence Binyon, Abanindranath Tagore, and the seminal London Modernist sculptors Eric Gill and Jacob Epstein. To mark the 1930 occasion of Mahatma Gandhi 's arrest for protesting the British tax on salt, Bose created a black on white linocut print of Gandhi walking with a staff. It became the iconic image for the non-violence movement. His genius and original style were recognised by famous artists and art critics like Gaganendranath Tagore, Ananda Coomaraswamy and O.C. Ganguli. These lovers of art felt that objective criticism was necessary for the development of painting and founded the Indian Society of Oriental Art. He became principal of the Kala Bhavana ( College of Arts ) at Tagore 's International University Santiniketan in 1922. He was also famously asked by Jawaharlal Nehru to sketch the emblems for the Government of India 's awards, including the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Shri. Along with his students, Nandalal Bose took up the historic task of beautifying / decorating the original manuscript of the Constitution of India. He died on 16 April 1966 in Calcutta. Today, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi holds 7000 of his works in its collection, including a 1930 black and white linocut of the Dandi March depicting Mahatma Gandhi, and a set of seven posters he later made at the request of Mahatma Gandhi for the 1938 Haripura Session of the Indian National Congress. His place in Indian Art In his introduction for the Christie 's catalogue, R. Siva Kumar wrote - Nandalal Bose ( 1882 -- 1966 ) occupies a place in the history of Modern Indian art that combines those of Raphael and Durer in the history of the Renaissance. Like Raphael Nandalal was a great synthesizer, his originality lay in his ability to marshal discrete ideas drawn from Abanindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, E.B. Havell, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Okakura Kakuzo and Mahatma Gandhi into a unique and unified programme for the creation of a new art movement in India. And like Durer he combined a passion bordering on devotion with an irrepressible analytical mind that compelled him to prise open different art traditions and unravel their syntactic logic, and make them accessible to a new generation of Indian artists. But he did this so quietly and without self - assertive fanfare that the significance of his work is yet to be fully grasped even in India. Students Some of his students were Benode Behari Mukherjee, Ramkinkar Baij, Beohar Rammanohar Sinha, K.G. Subramanyan, A. Ramachandran, Henry Dharmasena, Pratima Thakur, Ramananda Bandopadhyay, Sovon Som, Jahar Dasgupta, Sabita Thakur, Menaja Swagnesh, Yash Bombbut, Satyajit Ray, Dinkar K Kowshik and Kondapalli Seshagiri Rao. Also A.D. Jayathilake was one of his student from Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ) and had the opportunity to study under Dr. Nandalal Bose in the final batch ( 1948 - 1952 ). Dr. Nandalal Bose 's uniquely drawn two paintings ; `` Arjuna Tree '' and `` Mango trees '' are currently with his Sri Lankan Student ( A.D. Jaythilake ). Honours and awards In 1956, he became the second artist to be elected Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi, India 's National Academy of Art. In 1954, Nandalal Bose was awarded the Padma Vibhushan. In 1957, the University of Calcutta conferred honorary D. Litt on him. Vishvabharati University honoured him by conferring on him the title of ' Deshikottama '. The Academy of Fine Arts in Calcutta honoured Nandalal with the Silver Jubilee Medal. The Tagore Birth Centenary Medal was awarded to Nandalal Bose in 1965 by the Asiatic Society of Bengal. References Jump up ^ `` Nanadlal Bose A notable Indian painter of Bengal school of art... '' 4to40.com. Retrieved 22 February 2014. Jump up ^ `` San Diego museum showcases Nandalal Bose ''. Rediff.com News. 25 June 2008. Jump up ^ Robert L. Pincus ( 15 March 2008 ). `` The Art of Nandalal Bose ' is first U.S. showcase for an Indian icon ''. Paramus Post. Jump up ^ Kamala Ganesh ; Usha Thakkar ( 13 July 2005 ). Culture and the Making of Identity in Contemporary India. SAGE Publications. pp. 49 --. ISBN 978 - 0 - 7619 - 3381 - 6. Jump up ^ Nine Masters Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh. `` Nine Masters : Rabindranath Tagore, Amrita Sher - Gil, Jamini Roy and Nandalal Bose, Ravi Varma, Gaganendranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Sailoz Mookherjea and Nicholas Roerich. '' Jump up ^ C.H. Prahalada Rao ; Litent ( 1 January 2014 ). Nandalal Bose. Litent. pp. 3 --. GGKEY : D9L3P5T7YE4. Jump up ^ Dinkar k Kowshik ( 1985 ). Nandalal Bose, the doyen of Indian art. National Book Trust, India. Retrieved 18 April 2012. Jump up ^ Rupert Richard Arrowsmith, `` The Transcultural Roots of Modernism : Imagist Poetry, Japanese Visual Culture, and the Western Museum System '', Modernism / modernity Volume 18, Number 1, January 2011, 27 -- 42. ISSN 1071 - 6068. Jump up ^ Video of a Lecture mentioning Bose in the context of Indian influences n global modernism, London University School of Advanced Study, March 2012. Jump up ^ `` Nandalal Bose paintings on display in U.S ''. The Hindu. 15 March 2008. Jump up ^ `` The Constitution of India ''. World Digital Library. 7 May 2009. Retrieved 9 December 2010. Jump up ^ `` Bengal School of Art exhibition to open in US ''. The Economic Times. 24 June 2008. Jump up ^ http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/drawings-watercolors/nandalal-bose-bull-fighter-5716124-details.aspx Jump up ^ `` About Art Benwinton ''. Art Benwinton. Retrieved 2017 - 08 - 27. Jump up ^ `` Art - 1 Arjun Tree - Art Benwinton ''. Art Benwinton. Retrieved 2017 - 08 - 27. Jump up ^ `` Art - 2 Mango Trees - Art Benwinton ''. Art Benwinton. Retrieved 2017 - 08 - 27. Jump up ^ `` Annual Convocation ''. University of Calcutta. Further reading Nandalal Bose and Indian painting, by Ramyansu Sekhar Das. Tower Publishers, 1958. Nandalal Bose : a collection of essays : centenary volume. Lalit Kala Akademi, 1983. Nandalal Bose, the doyen of Indian art. ( National biography ), by Dinkar Kowshik. National Book Trust, India, 1985. Rhythms of India : The Art of Nandalal Bose, exhibition catalogue. Sonya Rhie Quintanilla. San Diego Museum of Art. 2008. External links Media related to Nandalal Bose at Wikimedia Commons New York Times slideshow Padma Vibhushan award recipients Arts Ebrahim Alkazi Kishori Amonkar Amitabh Bachchan M. Balamuralikrishna T. Balasaraswati Asha Bhosle Nandalal Bose Hariprasad Chaurasia Girija Devi Kumar Gandharva Adoor Gopalakrishnan Satish Gujral Gangubai Hangal Bhupen Hazarika M.F. Husain Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer Bhimsen Joshi Ali Akbar Khan Amjad Ali Khan Allauddin Khan Bismillah Khan Yamini Krishnamurthy Dilip Kumar R.K. Laxman Birju Maharaj Kishan Maharaj Lata Mangeshkar Sonal Mansingh Mallikarjun Mansur Zubin Mehta Mario Miranda Kelucharan Mohapatra Raghunath Mohapatra Jasraj Motiram Benode Behari Mukherjee Hrishikesh Mukherjee Rajinikanth Ram Narayan D.K. Pattammal K. Shankar Pillai Akkineni Nageswara Rao Kaloji Narayana Rao Satyajit Ray S.H. Raza Zohra Sehgal Uday Shankar Ravi Shankar V. Shantaram Shivkumar Sharma Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman M.S. Subbulakshmi K.G. Subramanyan Kapila Vatsyayan Homai Vyarawalla K.J. Yesudas Civil Service Bimala Prasad Chaliha Naresh Chandra T.N. Chaturvedi Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri Suranjan Das Rajeshwar Dayal Basanti Devi P.N. Dhar Jyotindra Nath Dixit M.S. Gill Hafiz Mohamad Ibrahim H.V.R. Iyengar Bhola Nath Jha Dattatraya Shridhar Joshi Ajudhia Nath Khosla Rai Krishnadasa V. Krishnamurthy P. Prabhakar Kumaramangalam Pratap Chandra Lal K.B. Lall Sam Manekshaw Om Prakash Mehra Mohan Sinha Mehta M.G.K. Menon Brajesh Mishra Sumati Morarjee A. Ramasamy Mudaliar Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan Braj Kumar Nehru Bhairab Dutt Pande Ghananand Pande Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit T.V. Rajeswar C.R. Krishnaswamy Rao Pattadakal Venkanna R Rao V.K.R.V. Rao Khusro Faramurz Rustamji Harish Chandra Sarin Binay Ranjan Sen Homi Sethna Arjan Singh Harbaksh Singh Kirpal Singh Manmohan Singh Tarlok Singh Lallan Prasad Singh Balaram Sivaraman Chandrika Prasad Srivastava T. Swaminathan Arun Shridhar Vaidya Dharma Vira Narinder Nath Vohra Literature and Education V.S.R. Arunachalam Jagdish Bhagwati Satyendra Nath Bose Tara Chand Suniti Kumar Chatterji D.P. Chattopadhyaya Bhabatosh Datta Avinash Dixit Mahasweta Devi John Kenneth Galbraith Sarvepalli Gopal Lakshman Shastri Joshi Kaka Kalelkar Dhondo Keshav Karve Gopinath Kaviraj Kuvempu O.N.V. Kurup Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Sitakant Mahapatra John Mathai Kotha Satchidanda Murthy Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri Bal Ram Nanda R.K. Narayan Amrita Pritam K.N. Raj C. Rangarajan Raja Rao Ramoji Rao Hormasji Maneckji Seervai Rajaram Shastri Kalu Lal Shrimali Govindbhai Shroff Khushwant Singh Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey Mahadevi Varma Bashir Hussain Zaidi Medicine Jasbir Singh Bajaj B.K. Goyal Purshotam Lal A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar S.I. Padmavati Autar Singh Paintal Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti Balu Sankaran V. Shanta Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar Prakash Narain Tandon Brihaspati Dev Triguna M.S. Valiathan Other Sunderlal Bahuguna B.K.S. Iyengar Rambhadracharya Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Jaggi Vasudev Public Affairs L.K. Advani Montek Singh Ahluwalia Aruna Asaf Ali Fazal Ali Adarsh Sein Anand Madhav Shrihari Aney Parkash Singh Badal Sikander Bakht Milon K. Banerji Mirza Hameedullah Beg P.N. Bhagwati Raja Chelliah Chandra Kisan Daphtary Niren De C.D. Deshmukh Anthony Lancelot Dias Uma Shankar Dikshit Kazi Lhendup Dorjee P.B. Gajendragadkar Benjamin A. Gilman Zakir Husain V.R. Krishna Iyer Jagmohan Lakshmi Chand Jain Aditya Nath Jha Murli Manohar Joshi Mehdi Nawaz Jung Ali Yavar Jung Vijay Kelkar Hans Raj Khanna V.N. Khare Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai Jivraj Narayan Mehta V.K. Krishna Menon Hirendranath Mukherjee Ajoy Mukherjee Pranab Mukherjee Padmaja Naidu Gulzarilal Nanda Govind Narain Fali Sam Nariman Hosei Norota Nanabhoy Palkhivala K. Parasaran Hari Vinayak Pataskar Sunder Lal Patwa Sharad Pawar Naryana Raghvan Pillai Sri Prakasa N.G. Ranga Ravi Narayana Reddy Y. Venugopal Reddy Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq Lakshmi Sahgal P.A. Sangma M.C. Setalvad Karan Singh Nagendra Singh Swaran Singh Walter Sisulu Soli Sorabjee Kalyan Sundaram Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi Atal Bihari Vajpayee M.N. Venkatachaliah Kottayan Katankot Venugopal Jigme Dorji Wangchuck Science and Engineering V.K. Aatre Salim Ali Norman Borlaug Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Rajagopala Chidambaram Charles Correa Satish Dhawan Anil Kakodkar A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan Har Gobind Khorana Daulat Singh Kothari Verghese Kurien Raghunath Anant Mashelkar G. Madhavan Nair Roddam Narasimha Jayant Narlikar Rajendra K. Pachauri Benjamin Peary Pal Yash Pal I.G. Patel Venkatraman Ramakrishnan K.R. Ramanathan Raja Ramanna C.R. Rao C.N.R. Rao Palle Rama Rao Udupi Ramachandra Rao Vikram Sarabhai Man Mohan Sharma Obaid Siddiqi E. Sreedharan M.R. Srinivasan George Sudarshan M.S. Swaminathan Social Work Baba Amte Pandurang Shastri Athavale Janaki Devi Bajaj Mirabehn Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Durgabai Deshmukh Nanaji Deshmukh Nirmala Deshpande Mohan Dharia U.N. Dhebar Valerian Gracias Veerendra Heggade Mary Clubwala Jadhav Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta Usha Mehta Sister Nirmala Nellie Sengupta Sports Viswanathan Anand Edmund Hillary Sachin Tendulkar Trade and Industry Dhirubhai Ambani Ghanshyam Das Birla Ashok Sekhar Ganguly Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan Lakshmi Mittal N.R. Narayana Murthy M. Narasimham Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi Azim Premji Prathap C. Reddy J.R.D. Tata Ratan Tata Portal WikiProject Fellows of the Lalit Kala Akademi Painters Jamini Roy Nandalal Bose Akbar Padamsee Benode Behari Mukherjee Anil Karanjai N.S. Bendre Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar K.C.S. Paniker M.F. Hussain B.C. Sanyal P.T. Reddy K.H. Ara S.H. Raza K.G. Subramanyan Paritosh Sen Mukul Dey Svetoslav Roerich Ram Gopal Vijaiwargiya Ranbir Singh Bisht A. Ramachandran Bikash Bhattacharjee Ram Kumar ( artist ) Sculptors Vinayak Pandurang Karmarkar Ram Kinker Baij Dhanraj Bhagat Sankho Chaudhuri Amar Nath Sehgal Others Kuvempu C. Sivaramamurti Ravi Shankar Raval Mulk Raj Anand M.S. Randhawa Kapila Vatsyayan Keshav Malik Templates WikiProject VIAF : 13226970 LCCN : n83151942 ISNI : 0000 0001 2208 9147 GND : 123832632 SUDOC : 116727918 ULAN : 500121672 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nandalal_Bose&oldid=805192211 '' Categories : Indian male painters Fellows of the Lalit Kala Akademi Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan in arts People from Howrah district 1883 births 1966 deaths Government College of Art & Craft alumni University of Calcutta alumni Visva - Bharati University faculty Bengali male artists Indian art educators Indian arts administrators People from Munger district 20th - century Indian painters 20th - century Indian educators Educators from West Bengal Hidden categories : EngvarB from September 2014 Use dmy dates from September 2014 Pages to import images to Wikidata Articles with hCards Pages using infobox artist with unknown parameters Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ULAN identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Wikisource বাংলা हिन्दी ಕನ್ನಡ മലയാളം ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Edit links This page was last edited on 13 October 2017, at 17 : 52. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: who is the artist who illuminated the constitution of india
Answer: Nandalal Bose