This is a portrait of Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, and painter.
Portrait Artist: SaRShu
Posting as Agent: @neajmorshed
USED MATERIALS:
- Graphite pencils and ball pen
- Draft
- Poster color on Cartidge paper
I used Poster color to draw this one. When I was a junior higher secondary student, I drew this one after reading 'Sesher Kobita', a wonderful
novella by Rabindranath Tagore. He became my one of the most favourite writer.
He is also known by his sobriquets Gurudev, Kabiguru and Biswakabi. He was the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 with his book Gitanjali, Song Offerings.
He played a key role in the renaissance of modern India. He has been described as one of the first Twentieth Century’s global man.
Tagore was firm friends with Gandhi and admired him very much. But, despite this friendship, he could be critical of his views.
For example, he disagreed with Gandhi’s views on Swaraj protests and upbraided Gandhi when Gandhi claimed an earthquake was ‘divine retribution for the mistreatment of Dalits in India.’
Yet despite the frequent divergence of opinions, they could admire each other.Tagore was a polymath,
and towards the end of his life he took up art and also pursued an interest in science. Tagore was also very much an internationalist, criticising nationalism, though also writing songs and articles in support of the general principle of the Indian independence movement.
As a humanist, universalist internationalist, and strident anti-nationalist he denounced the Raj and advocated independence from Britain.
As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two thousand songs; his legacy endures also in the institution he founded, Visva-Bharati University.
