11:30 am - 1pm : A walk through the Black House and other architectures in Santiniketan Campus and orientation by Anshuman DasGupta , Sanchayan Ghosh and Sajad Hamdani together with the whole

2020年6月22日 · Just a three-hour train ride away, Shantiniketan was envisaged as a university town of Rabindranath Tagore. In between Sangeet Bhavan & Kala Bhavan at Shantiniketan there is the Black House ( Kalo Bari). The Kalo Bari is an interesting structure made of mud and coal tar with black murals on its walls.

The Black House was made from mud, painted black and its walls covered with a variety of motifs, local and international, in low relief. Kala Bhavan, the parent institution was founded on the integration of art and craft. A year before the making of ther black house Shyamali, the mud house was built in the housing complex of Tagore .

‘global nest’ in Santiniketan, a remote rural area in the eastern province of Bengal in British-ruled India.7 ‘British-India’ was a variegated geographic-political entity in the early twentieth century.8 Within these fractured territories, Pondicherry was a small French-administered town on India’s south-eastern coast.

2019年7月30日 · The Black House was a collaborative project by Nandalal Bose, Ramkinkar Baij, other artists, and students. It was constructed with experimental methods using mud and tar. Mitter identifies a ‘environmental primitivism’ at Kala Bhavana in Shantiniketan that arose from Tagore’s educational ideology, which Nandalal Bose adapted and adjusted ...

Black House (Kalo Bari) : In between Sangeet Bhavan & Kala Bhavan, Black House (Kalo Bari) is situated where students of Kala Bhavan were residing. This Bhavan is built in 1934 as per wish of Tagore & planning of Nandalal Basu, Surendranath Kar and Ramkinkar Baiz.

Featured here is the Black House, a student hostel in the campus of Kalabhavan, College of Arts, Shantiniketan. The building made of mud is designed by eminent artistes like Nandalal Bose, Surendranath Kar and Ramkinker Baij. The walls of the house are decorated with Mohenjo-daro motifs and that of several folk and classical art forms.

The black house shows a striking assimilation of cross cultural ideas with local building material. Its external walls are profusely decorated with bas-reliefs from Bhahrut, Mahabalipuram, Egyptian and Assyrian

This area was gifted from the Sinha family (family of Lord SP Sinha) to the Tagore family. Rabindranath's father, Maharshi Debendranath Tagore, found it very peaceful and renamed it Santiniketan, which means abode (niketan) of peace (shanti).

Kalo Bari (black house), Santiniketan. Built c. 1936-7. Saptarshi Sanyal . This image is embedded in ... Plaques with names of PM Modi, Vice-Chancellor at Visva-Bharati trigger row, Monday, October 23, 2023 - 02:16; Sanyal, Saptarshi. " Architectures as the Field of Connections."