Test Mimesis

Brief History of Printmaking in India Printmaking can be dated back to 1556 in India (100 years after Guttenberg’s Bible was 1st printed) but at the time it was merely utilized as a device to duplicate and reproduce manuscripts and texts. From early attempts by Raja Ravi Verma with his glossy oleographs and then emerged the practice of printmaking as a fine art medium with the establishment of Kala Bhavan founded by the Tagores in 1919. Out of the three Tagore brothers, Abanindranath, Gagendranath and Samarendranath (nephews of Rabindranath Tagore), artist Gagendranath Tagore took a special interest in lithography, and set up his own lithographic press in 1917. He later published an album of his prints.