Bharater Shilpa O Amar Katha by Ordhendra Coomar Ganguly Bengali PDF.
Book Name – Bharater Shilpa O Amar Katha,
Author – Ordhendra Coomar Gangopadhyay (O. C. Ganguly),
Genre – Bengali Novel,
Book Pages – 564,
Book Format – PDF,
PDF Size – 40 MB,
Ordhendra Coomar Ganguly wrote the novel Bharater Shilpa O Amar Katha.
Ordhendra Coomar Ganguly was an Indian Bengali art critic and professor, noted painter, art historian and musician. He was known as OC Ganguly. Ganguly was born on 1 August 1881 in Burabazar area of Kolkata. His father’s name was Arghaprakash Gangopadhyay. After passing the entrance exam in 1896 from the Burabazar branch of the Metropolitan Institution, he was admitted to the Presidency College, Calcutta. In 1900, he passed the technical examination from the Gregory Jones Institute of Technology after graduating with honors in English. Later, after passing law, he started practicing law, but art and music were his pursuits. He died on 9 February 1974.
Life of Ordhendra Coomar Ganguly – Indian Bengali art
Ordhendra Coomar Ganguly received artistic inspiration from Srinath Tagore. He drew his first picture at the age of thirteen. He had a special affinity with the Tagore family, including Gaganendranath Tagore and Abanindranath Tagore. Ganguly was one of the founders and secretary of the Indian Society of Oriental Art. Samaj’s magazine Rupam was a shining example of his extraordinary talent and craft. It was he who sent paintings or works by every artist of the Avanindra school to the famous exhibition in Paris in 1914. Appointed as a professor at Calcutta University in 1943, he left the profession of lawyer. He has lectured on Indian arts and crafts in China, Myanmar (Brahmadesh) and many other countries. He has been honored by many institutions including Lalitkala Academy, Asiatic Society. The name of a street in Bhavanipur area of Kolkata is O. C. Ganguly Sarani’ in memory of Ganguly.
Nowadays, we often discuss the culture of Bengal and India with special enthusiasm, and we are proud to say that this culture is a great thing in the modern world. But many of us have no idea what this culture is like and what its ingredients and materials are. We are satisfied with a dim idea or fantasy mixed with patriotism. But we do not know exactly what the trend of thinking of Bengali or Indian culture of this era is and what is the source of its actions, and how its speed has come along which path, and probably because there is no suitable material at hand, we are not used to discussing suffering.
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In such a situation, some of the intellectual and creative people who have continued this culture as a bearer and bearer for the past four centuries, among them Mr. Ordhendra Coomar Gangopadhyay, an eighty-four-year-old veteran painter and a scholar of art history, respected by the entire Bengali and Indian nation, is the foremost. His long life of eighty-four years is closely associated with the renaissance and artistic expression that is taking place in modern India. In the practice of the progress of science in modern India, the names of Jagadish, Prafulla Chandra Sen, Girishchandra, Ramendrasundar Trivedi , Meghnad Saha, Ramanujan, Krishnan, Chandrasekhar, Venkataraman, Birbal Sahni, etc. cannot be left out, so when we talk about art in modern India, and along with it, the ancient and medieval Indian Abanindranath and Nandalal, along with Ordhendra Coomar Gangopadhyay, become indispensable in judging India’s philosophy and study of art and world art.
Why famous Ordhendra Coomar Ganguly in Indian Philosophy and study of Art and World Art?
Author Ordhendra Coomar Gangopadhyay’s long and active life is inextricably linked with the history and progress of Bengali and Indian art. This history and discussion is part of his life. It is not an easy task to show this history or discussion from the pace of his life, especially one whose life seems to be more difficult for him. However, if an accomplished man, upon reaching old age, looks back on his past life and evaluates all the good and bad, happiness and sorrow, hope and fear, success and failure, then his usefulness is extraordinary. Everyone would like to hear what Ordhendra Coomar Ganguly himself has seen and done, what place his knowledge and judgment has placed in the history of all nations. Not everyone can do this kind of life-analysis, for this both the talent of the thinker and the artist is required.
Why famous Indian linguist, writer Dr. Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay in Bengali literature?
Famous Indian linguist, writer Dr. Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay said, the method or approach or tidiness that he helped to develop in modern Indian art and by which India’s face in art matters in the modern world has shone, we are sitting on the lure of ultra-modernism. The Beatle dance and the twist dance are now making the ancient-Indian dance unpopular, while ‘modern art’ and ‘abstract art’ are trying to destroy the art that expresses the true Siva Sundar inherent in our Indian life.
It is a matter of great pleasure that we are grateful to Ordhendra Gangopadhyay for his long view of the twilight of his life. This book, which Mr. Ordhendra Coomar Ganguly gave to us, is a combination of history and literary creation – he did not write like a professional historian or an autobiographer – he sat down to tell us stories about his long life’s many setbacks and experiences. He has candidly expressed his artistic views of all the artists and other people whom he has seen in life, or with whom he has been intimately associated, and that is why his autobiography has come to a simple and easy and fluent manner, from which real juice has arisen.
There are many other autobiographical books in Bengali such as Vidyasagar’s ‘Asampurna Swarchit Jeevan-Katha’, Maharshi Debendranath Tagore’s ‘Atma-Jivan’, Navin Chandra Sen’s ‘Amar Jeevan’, Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Jivan-Smriti’. ‘Atmacharit’ by Rajnarayan Bose – besides these authors Gangopadhyay’s ‘Bharat Shilpa O Amar Katha’ will occupy a prominent place. However, as the history of India’s art of this transitional period is inextricably linked, the book’s literary value is also undeniable.