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Gaganendranath Tagore was Rathindranath's cousin, and a self-taught artist, caricaturist and actor. His art focussed on Bengal and stemmed from his observations of its natural vistas and cultural ethos. His watercolours ranged from paintings of Bengal and the Himalayas, to his famous Chaitanya series centred around the 16th century ascetic. His interest in theatre manifested in the way light, shadow and setting interact in his works. From... Gaganendranath Tagore was Rathindranath's cousin, and a self-taught artist, caricaturist and actor. His art focussed on Bengal and stemmed from his observations of its natural vistas and cultural ethos. His watercolours ranged from paintings of Bengal and the Himalayas, to his famous Chaitanya series centred around the 16th century ascetic. His interest in theatre manifested in the way light, shadow and setting interact in his works. From the 1920s onwards, he turned to Cubism while continuing to explore Indian themes. As a caricaturist, from his early court summons in 1906 and 1907, where he made sketches of the jurors, to his Vichitra Club drawings from 1916 - 1918, he showed great wit and humour in drawing out the essence of his characters.

In 1907, Gaganendranath founded the Indian Society of Oriental Art along with his cousin Abanindranath Tagore. Having created a platform to promote art that employed and echoed indigenous styles, Gaganendranath remained the driving force behind this Society. With his death in 1938, a large number of his paintings passed into the collection of the Rabindra-Bharati Society in Jorasanko, Kolkata.

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