Pranab Ranjan Ray's TRIBUTE TO TAGORE
Pranab Ranjan Ray's TRIBUTE TO TAGORE Faizul Khan Tanim in conversation with the art critic about his recent talk on Tagore's art Pranab Ranjan Ray is one of the most celebrated art critics of this sub-continent. During a recent visit to Dhaka, he spoke about the significance of Rabindranath Tagore's paintings at the Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts on March 31, at an event held to celebrate the poet's 150th birth anniversary in May. Educated at Shantiniketan, Kolkata University and with a degree from the Indian Statistical Institute, Ray does not have an academic background in the arts. His fondness for the arts developed during his university days as he viewed exhibitions and through interactions with artists, which soon overtook his penchant for active politics as a member of the communist party and he started to write about art when he was studying for an M.A. He gained recognition as an art critic when he started to write for the Lalit Kala Acade...