Kalipada Ghoshal
| Kalipada Ghoshal কালিপদ ঘোষাল |
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September 1906 Howrah, India |
| Died | 29 April 1995 (aged 88) Howrah, West Bengal, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Modern Indian Art |
Kalipada Ghoshal (Bengali: কালিপদ ঘোষাল) Kali-Pado meaning who is under Mother Goddess Kali. He was an artist from Calcutta. He was the last successor of Abanindranath Tagore's Indian Society of Oriental Art and Bengal school of art.
Kalipada Ghoshal was born in September 1906 in an economically modest family in a tiny village named Jadabbati situated between two villages named Munsirhat and Maju under Jagatballavpur P.S.Howrah Bengal British India. He was the eldest son of his father Gyanodacharan and mother Bashantakumari. His curiosity & interest towards arts was developed at his early childhood. At the age of 10 he often went to his maternal home in Gobindapur which is another small village situated within few kilometres from his home. Later he named this place as the village of art (shilpogram), where he used to visit local clay model makers of Hindu Gods & Goddesses. He started helping the local mural artists by painting Chalchitra . Soon he became popular among the villagers for his extraordinary brush strokes, which helped him to introduce with young Nandalal Bose through Bose's brother-in-law named Kalipada Bose.
In the year 1920 Kalipada went to Jorasanko thakurbari (the residence of Rabindranath Tagore) with Nandalal Bose where he met the art teacher Abanindranath Tagore. Tagore was pleased with his art but suggested him to go back and concentrate in his school studies. But Ghoshal ran away from his village and went to Tagore to learn.
For the first few years Abanindranath groomed Kalipada personally at his residence. Kalipada had spent few valuable years at jorasanko, where he observed & got the valuable opportunities to interact with many great personalities of Jorasanko including Rabindranath Tagore at his time. Later he became the drawing teacher of the juveniles of the Tagore family (Jorasanko Thakur bari) including Tagore's own sister Sabita Tagore. Beside painting Kalipada had a keen passion in music. He had learned Indian traditional Classical Music & Musical instruments including Esraj and Clarinet.
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