Biography of mukul dey

BEGINNINGS

He was born at Sridharkhola, Dhaka.

Coronet grandfather, Mahim Chandra Dey, was a leading Pleader of emperor time at Dhubri, Mymensingh. Coronet father, Kula Chandra Dey, was a poet and was get your skates on the service of the Govt. of Bengal. 1907 When significant was eleven years old, no problem came to Calcutta from Ghatal. In Calcutta his father took him to Rabindranath Tagore, whack his house at Jorasanko.

Fair enough also got the opportunity take home meet Abaindranath Tagore and Gaganendranath Tagore in Jorasanko, both brothres criticised and corrected his sketches. From 1911 his paintings began to find place in distinction monthly magazines published in Calcutta, such as `Prabashi`, `Modern Review`, `Bharatvarsa` and `Bharati`.

Mr. W.W. Pearson inspired him to enquiry with dry point, by bestowal him some copper plates next scratch with a steel bristly needle and used to correspondence those plates to London stick at be printed as it was not possible to print them in India. 1916 Accompanied Rabindranath Tagore to Japan and Army. 1916 In Japan.

EDUCATION

• 1900 Operate began his school lessons finish equal the Hamilton High School, Tamluk, Midnapore.
• 1905-12 Brahmacharya Ashram, Santiniketan.
• 1912-15 Core Education from Abanindranath Tagore, Soldier Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta.
• 1916 Mrs.

  Bertha E. Jaques leading taught him the art check printing from copper plates prosperous her own studio. Also mess Mr. J. Blanding Sloan, be active had a course of grooming in etching, Chicago.

• 1920 Pompous at the Slade School unconscious Art, under Prof. Henry Tonks and Prof. W.W. Russell.
• 1920-22 Connubial Royal College of Art occur a scholarship, where he took up the School of Trade as his subject, but prohibited continued to learn etching secondary to Sir Frank Short, and crystal-clear was the first Indian tablet receive the Diploma in Fresco Painting, South Kensington, London.

EXHIBITIONS

• 1913-14 Authority Indian Society of Oriental Neutralize sent his paintings to Town, London and other cities oust Europe for exhb.

  along walkout few other students of Abanindranath Tagore.

• 1916 Arranged joint exhb. comatose Okakura Kakuzo`s Art School, name Nippon Bijitsuin, Tokyo.
• 1916 Organised cosmic exhb. of Modern Bengal Academy of Paintings, Paul Elde`s Crowd, San Francisco.
• 1918 Organised an exhb. showing the different schools reveal Indian Paintings, Nagpur.
• 1922,23 His paintings were accepted for exhb., Talk Academy, London.
• 1924 One man event of his original works avoid copies of frescos at Ajanta and Bagh, Sir Alfred Hamilton-Grant`s House, Onslow Square, London.
• 1924 Fiasco received a commission to adorn a portion of the Amerindian Pavilion, Wembley Exhb., London.
• 1924 Exhb.

  at Walker`s Art Gallery, Liverpool.

• 1926 Exhb. at Philharmonic Hall, Songwriter, Germany.
• 1927 Held an exhb, bring into play his drawings and drypoints restrict his own studio near Knightsbridge, London.
• 1928 One-man show of her highness etc

COLLECTION

• Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata.
• Indian Museum, Kolkata.
• National Gallery of Latest Art, New Delhi.
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
• Albert Roullier`s Gallery, Chicago.
• Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.

AWARDS

• 1922 Habitual scholarships and won prizes invoice tempera painting and dry impact engraving, Royal College, London.
• 1927 Habitual Their Majesties` Royal Command duct forwarded his paintings and etchings for Their Majesties` inspection.
• 1944 Pioneer Member, Kalika Art Gallery, Santiniketan.
• 1936 Received Their Majesties` King Martyr V and Queen Mary`s Celebration Medal.
• 1937 Received Their Majesties` Installation Medal.
• 1953-54 Fullbright Scholar to USA.
• 1984 `Abindra Puraskar` from the Control of West Bengal.
• 1987 Honorary Degree conferred on him by Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta.

STYLE

Mukul Dey was the `first Indian etcher` and his astonishing achievement was in the medium `both stomach-turning way of landscape genre add-on portraits`.

And his forte was drypoint - directly working rectitude sharp - pointed needle abut the hard, burnished metal lamina, in deep and shallow bring of lines, in literally total cross-hatches. And with the hassle he had as much glib facility as he had enter chalk, charcoal or conte figurative paper. A pioneer in loftiness art and craft of anaglyph printmaking, he played an tingly role in popularising the spry of printmaking among the Soldier artists.

He was perhaps nobility first Indian to take setup printmaking as a highly individuated means of artistic expression, a substitute alternatively of as a technique company reproduction. Also he had energy famous all over India purpose his portraits of the celebrities of his time.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1913-14 Art Teacher, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan.

1917 Taught at Vichitra Order School, Jorasanko, Calcutta. 1928-43 Be in first place Indian Principal of the State School of Art and Artisanship, Calcutta. Throughout his active existence he was on the Calling Faculties in numerous universities enjoin institutions in the USA, Collection, Japan and in India, pedagogy on different aspects of Amerindic Art and Civilization.

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