Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore began writing poetry when he was eight years old. He was 16-years-old when he released his first collection of poems under the penname Bhanusingha. Later at the age of 60, he took up drawing and painting and held many successful exhibitions of his works.

His works - mostly inspired by the works of scrimshaw from northern New Ireland, Haida carvings from British Columbia and Max Pechstein's woodcuts - usually had strange colour schemes and off-beat aesthetics that led to the belief that he was probably red-green colour blind.