Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore was truly a man of the Renaissance. He was a 20th-century Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music and Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Surrounded by several painters, Rabindranath had always wanted to paint. At 60, Tagore finally started to draw and paint and even had successful exhibitions of his many works, which made a debut appearance in Paris upon encouragement by artists he met in the south of France and then were held throughout Europe. He was likely red-green color blind, resulting in works that exhibited strange color schemes and off-beat aesthetics. Tagore was influenced by numerous styles, including scrimshaw by the Malanggan people of northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Haida carvings from the Pacific Northwest region of North America, and woodcuts by the German Max Pechstein.
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