Asit Kumar Haldar Artworks

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Asit Kumar Haldar (1890 –1964) was an Indian painter of Bengal school and an assistant of Rabindranath Tagore at Shantiniketan. He was one of the major artists of the Bengal renaissance. Asit spent years in the Ajanta documenting the paintings on the frescoes and later he was an art teacher at Shantiniketan. Haldar made a tour of Europe in 1923 and soon realized that Realism in European art had numerous limitations. He sought to balance physical attributes in proportion to the magnitude of the subject matter. Asit Haldar was the first Indian to be appointed as the principal of a Government Art School. He was also the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London in 1934.