Who conceptualized 'Shantiniketan', where Kala Bhavana was established?

1) Gaganendranath
2) Rabindranath Tagore
3) Abanindranath Tagore
4) E. B. Havell

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Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
Shantiniketan, where Kala Bhavana was established, was conceptualized by poet Rabindranath Tagore.

It was against the colonial bias that nationalist art emerged, and the Bengal School of Art, as nurtured by Abanindranath Tagore and E. B. Havell, was a prime example. India’s first nationalist art school, Kala Bhavana, was set up in 1919 as part of the newly established Visva-Bharati University in Shantiniketan, conceptualised by poet Rabindranath Tagore. It carried the vision of the Bengal School but also followed its own path in creating art meaningful for Indians. This was the time when the whole world was in a state of intense political turmoil in the wake of World War–I.