Tiller of the Soil Indian Farmer | fine art class 12|painting class 12
11 Mar 2018
Tiller of the Soil (Indian Farmer)
This is merely a part of the
special painting painted to decorate the pavilion site of the Congress Session,
Haripura in 1938. Artist Nandlal Bose painted it with the best combination of
cross-transverse but rhythmic lines, tempera and wash technique of water
colours on paper. In this painting, an Indian farmer has been shown tilling the
field in traditional method. The artist has displayed the field and method of
tilling it through three serpentine lines.
In this entire painting, the artist
used black, white, brown, yellow and blue colours to make decoration,
shape-structure and lines cross-transverse and thick and thin. The farmer’s
body has been shown in dark-brown colour and his loin-cloth (dhoti) and turban
in white colour. The plough has been shown in brown colour, the bullocks in
white colour and clothes on their backs with blue colour.
In the background, the painter
has used yellow even colour, whilst, by making arched shape in the foreground,
the painter has given the look of whole painting as Jharokha (peep hole).
Artist—Nandlal Bose
(1883-1966 A.D.). Bose was born at Munger (Kharagpur) on December 3, 1883. While studying
at Art College, Kolkata, he was introduced to the Vice-Principal, Abanindranath
Tagore, and there he learnt tricks or short formulae of modern Bengal
paintings. With the cooperation of Abanindranath, to assist English mural
painter Lady Herringham, he was sent to prepare the facsimiles of murals of the
Ajanta and the Bagh Caves. In this way he got an opportunity to come into
contact with the excellent paintings of Indian art. From this very place came
wide maturity and changes in his style.
Among his famous paintings
are—Sati, Shiv Drinking Poison, Parthsarthi, Returning of Buddha, Swarnkalash,
Shivlok, Sujata, Uma, Veenavadini, Ardhnarishwar, Vriksharopan, Tiller of the
Soil, Mother and Child, etc. His linocut made on Dandi March is very famous.
In 1920, he was appointed as the
Principal of ‘Kala Bhavan’. Several universities honoured him with particular
titles. In 1961, the Government of India honoured him with the embellishment of
‘Padma Bhushan’.
1. Mention the cause of fame of the painting named
‘Tiller of the Soil’.