Contribution of indian artist in the national freedom movement
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Answer:By Ruchi Bhalla
Mughal dynasty’s interest in traditional art is widely acknowledged. However, their decline also led to the decline of traditional arts. The British Rule led to a slower but inevitable end of traditional art. The Indian art resurfaced in a different form, as a mix of western thoughts combined with eastern thoughts, but mostly on account of self expression and also as a supplement to the nationalistic movement to help realise political goals in an over suppressed India and majorly Bengal. Swadeshi Movement was triggered with the Imperial decision of partitioning Bengal. Following artworks can be considered as major highlights of the Swadeshi Art Movement during that period.
Saraswati by Raja Ravi Verma
Raja Ravi Verma is known to be the pioneer to help restore the national heritage. However, his style was termed as a hybrid, a fusion rather than authentic. His art had influences from Romanticism and hence was naively construed to be tainted by British Raj and was thus rejected by Abandrinath’s generation. Ravi Verma painted several beautiful works like Jatayu a bird devotee of Lord Rama is mauled by Ravana, Shakuntala, Arjuna and Subhadra, Draupadi dreading to meet Kichaka, and many more.
Bharat Mata by Abanindranath Tagore
Abanindranath Tagore is accepted as the first painter who helped revitalise the national heritage in the form of art. This painting depicts India as a Hindu goddess, with four arms holding Vedas, Rice, Mala and a white cloth, implying that it is not just for religious reasons that all must unite for their country but also for the nationalistic purposes. This painting was earlier named as Bangamata (Mother Bengal) but was later renamed as Bharat Mata (Mother India). It helped create a nationalistic feeling among the citizens during the struggle for Independence. The painting became so relatable that it encouraged Indians to participate in the Swadeshi Movement.
Medieval Saints by Benode Behari Mukherjee
Shantiniketan was founded in 1901 in rural area of Bengal by the Tagore family. Benode Behari joined it in 1925 under well know Indian artist Nandalal Bose and Rabindranath Tagore. He was not just a painter but also a celebrated Muralist. His style was a fusion of western art and traditional spirituality. He experimented with Murals, Collages, woodcuts, watercolours, Calligraphy, ink, oil paints, crayons, etc. Medieval Saints is one of his most recognised works, it is a Mural located on a wall within Shantiniketan. Going back to mythological Hindu stories was something that artists during the nationalist struggle constantly did.
Dandi March (Bapuji) by Nandalal Bose
Nandalal is considered as the father of Modern Indian Art who amalgamated patriotic emotions to his art. Patriotic sentiments and civil disobedience movement led him to create Mahatma Gandhi on his salt march. However, Haripura Posters are his biggest contribution to the world of Indian art.
Three Girls by Amrita Shergill
Amrita was a painter of Indian and Hungarian descent. Her style reflected the painting skills she had acquired during her time in Paris. She blamed the Bengal School along with contemporaries like Abanindranath Tagore and Nandalal Bose for the stagnation of art in India. She is one of the most famous Indian female artists. She is known for her works on South Indian Trilogy, which play with bold and vibrant colors unlike the style prevalent in India at that time. Her main purpose in her words was “I realized my real artistic mission, to interpret the life of Indians and particularly the poor Indians pictorially; to paint those silent images of infinite submission and patience…to reproduce on canvas the impression those sad eyes created on me.”
Dancing Woman by Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore had always been an art connoisseur but he started to take art seriously in his sixties. His works can sometimes be viewed as having a childlike self-expression and sometimes they show how freely and with wild abandon he used his creativity to give birth to paintings that cannot be explained and are strange and evocative. He frequently painted with brushes, cotton wool and sometimes even with his own fingers. Some of his beautiful works are Head study, Dancing Woman, Lady with flowers. Tagore created in paintings as in writing a language and form of self-expression that was completely unique. This was his attempt to break away from western technique and create a completely modern yet indigenous method of expression.
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The Indian artists played a vital role within the Indian Freedom movement. The contribution of three of them are as follows:
- Abanindranath Tagore: In 1905 Lord Curzon partitioned Bengal into two halves. it absolutely was supposedly in dire straits administrative purposes but the most reason was the rule policy. it had been the incident that led to the inception of the Swadeshi movement. Abanindranath who was the neighbour of Radbindranath Tagore painted Bharat Mata in 1906 to portray a humanised depiction of the state, so the citizens could easily connect with the liberty movement. He painted her as a seculiar sari-clad woman holding four objects which signified food, cloth, learning and spiritual knowledge- attributes of nationalist.
- Nandal Bose and 'Bapuji', the symbol of resistance: The Dandi March is now celebrated as an emblem of calm protest, it had been a touching portrait by a master of the Bengal Renaissance that brought Gandhi's act of quiet heroism to the people. Boss created a black and white linocut portrait of Gandhi walking with a staff and inscribed it with, "Bapuji 1930".
- Zainul Abedin: In 1993 Bengal was hit by a famine that claimed quite 3 million lives. Zainul Abedin who was referred to as the founding father of Bangladeshi Modern art was then a twenty-something youth moved by a twenty suffering he saw all around him and burning with a desire to try to to something about it. He had no weapons but had a paint brush and he made an exquisite picture of the people's condition in famine. Through this picture he wanted to point out the effect of famine on the lifetime of people. His paintings showed an excellent impact on the minds of Indians and contributed to the craze and anger they were already feeling. He had to travel to Pakistan after partition but his haunting sketches of a forgotten genocide were instrumental in fanning the flames of nationalism back.
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