Atul Bose

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Bose, Atul

Born Feb. 22, 1898, in Mymensingh, East Bengal. Indian painter and graphic artist.

Bose studied at the State College of Arts and Crafts in Calcutta (1916–18), of which he later became director, and at the school of the Royal Academy of Arts in London (1924–26). He was one of the founders of the National Academy of Art. His work reflects the experience of European realistic painting. He works in oils, watercolors, and pastels. He paints psychological portraits (R. Tagore, 1952, The Hermitage, Leningrad) and genre pictures (Boatman, 1936; Comrades, 1937), and has done a series of drawings on famine in Bengal (1943).

REFERENCE

Rao Ramachandra, P. R. Modern Indian Painting. Madras, 1953.

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With the appointment of Percy Brown as the Principal of the art school in Calcutta in 1 909, the ground began to shift and by 1920 academic artists like Hemendranath Mazumdar and Atul Bose had launched their own journal, Indian An Academy, and even founded a Society of Fine Arts to rival the famed Indian Society for Oriental Art, favoured by the Tagores.

The Triumph of Modernism: India's artists and the avant-garde 1922-1947

Roy Chowdhury, Atul Bose, and above all Zainul Abedin, whose harrowing images remain ingrained in collective memory.