High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ramkinkar Baij (May 20, 1906 - August 2, 1980) is an Indian sculptor, known as the Pioneer of Modern Indian Sculpture. He was one of the first Indian artists to understand the language of modern Western art and use it in his sculptures. He is regarded as the father of modernism in art in India. Baij was born in an economically modest family in the Bankura district of the modern state of West Bengal in India. While in his mid-teens Ramkinkar used to paint portraits of Indian freedom fighters involved in the Non-Cooperation Movement against the British rulers of India. At age 16 he got noticed by the renowned journalist Ramananda Chatterjee. Four years later Ramkinkar joined Rabindranath Tagore's university at Santiniketan as a student of fine arts. After obtaining a diploma from the university he went on to head the sculpture department. Eminent painter Jahar Dasgupta, a student of Shantiniketan was his disciple.

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