The Place of Art in Education Summary
GROWING UP AS AN ARTIST
Nandalal Bose was one of the pioneers of the renaissance of Modern art. During his childhood he drew inspiration for clay modelling, idol making and portraying from his mother and the potters living in his locality. Different artistic activities as still life, model painting, sauce painting were his deep passion and quest. He was inspired by his master-painter Abanindra Nath Tagore. Bose used his style and technique in paintings. Later Rabindranath Tagore, E B Havell, Ananda Coomarswami, Okakura Kakuzo and Gandhi had helped him to develop his creativity in art and painting.
ACHIEVEMENT AS AN ARTIST
Bose chiefly described Indian subject but he was not conservative to use the European style and technique. Bose’s noted pupils were Benode Behari Mukherjee, Ramkinkar Baiz, Satyajit Roy. Nandalal Bose was implored to embellish the manuscript of the constitution of India. He emblemed the prestigious awards as Bharat Ratna and Padmashree on request of the first Prime Minister of India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
SOURCE OF THE STORY
The remarkable essay, ‘The place of Art in Education’ has been extracted from Nandalal Bose’s original writing ‘Drishti and Shrishti’. The present essay is the Engligh translation of Bose’s Bengali text. It was brought out under the publication Department of Visva-Bharati, Calcutta in 1999 in the name of Nandalal Bose Birth Centenary Publication series.
SUMMARY OF THE STORY
Education is incomplete without art Education. There are various modes of learning knowledge and wisdom such as language, dance and music. But all these skills have their limitations. Art training enlightens aesthetic sense of beauty of each human being. Study of art should be integral part of our education system. At present the scope of art-education in our universities is limited.
Besides, now-a-days, art is confined in limited so-called educated persons. Lack of art tells upon one’s mental and physical health. They keep their surroundings untidy by spitting here and there and cause harm to their own and other’s health. A wretched santhal exhibits a great sense of beauty and style in his everyday house-hold work rather than an educated man.
Like literature, art can be categorised in two partsfine art and functional art. Fine art imparts us mental pleasure freeing our mind from daily exhaustion. On the other hand, functional art provides beauty to the objects of daily use. Without the sense of art education, we keep ourselves in oblivion about our past heritage. According to Nandalal Bose the remedy for the limitation of art-education lies in the following ways….
Each school and university must include arteducation mandatory in syllabus. This would develop pupils insight into literature, philosophy and science. There are several ways to make the students interested in art such as acquaint them with nature, good pieces of art, engagement of well qualified teachers, arrangement of films on art, visit to museums and picture galleries, seasonal festivals.
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