In the paintings of which of the following the influence of the modern western style of paintings can be seen, especially in the Cubist style?

1) Rabindranath Tagore
2) Abanindranath Tagore
3) Gaganendranath Tagore
4) Satyendranath Tagore

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Answer: Gaganendranath Tagore
Gaganendranath Tagore, brother of Abanindranath Tagore, is specifically mentioned as being influenced by the modern western style of paintings exhibited in 1922. He created paintings using Cubist style and geometric patterns.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, if on one hand, pan-Asianism was gaining popularity, ideas about modern European art also travelled to India. Hence, the year 1922 may be regarded as a remarkable one, when an important exhibition of works by Paul Klee, Kandinsky and other artists, who were part of the Bauhaus School in Germany, travelled to Calcutta. These European artists had rejected academic realism, which appealed to the Swadeshi artists. They created a more abstract language of art, consisting of squares, circles, lines and colour patches. For the first time, Indian artists and the public had a direct encounter with modern art of this kind. It is in the paintings by Gaganendranath Tagore, brother of Abanindranath Tagore, that the influence of modern western style of paintings can be clearly seen. He made several paintings using Cubist style, in which building interiors were created out of geometric patterns. Besides, he was deeply interested in making caricatures, in which he often made fun of rich Bengalis blindly following the European style of living.