Rabindranath Tagore
(1861 - 1941)
Rabindranath Tagore was active/lived in India. Rabindranath Tagore is known for painting.
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Biography Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1913, was a renowned poet and artist. In retaliation to
the conventional educational establishments in Bengal, Rabindranath
Tagore founded an Ashram in Santiniketan in 1901. Its core principles
was to develop an anti-colonial artistic and literary aesthetic
connected to India's heritage. His aim was to create a dynamic and fluid
learning environment removed from the parrot learning by wrote styles
favoured elsewhere.
Tagore's elite status served to attract rising
artists to Santiniketan and its avant-garde teaching style created a
distinctive type of schooling. A well known associate of
Rabindranath's nephe
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