In Rabindranath Tagore's biography, it is stated that he could not draw anyone else’s eyes other than that of his closest friend and sister-in-law Kadambari Devi with whom he shared platonic relations.
He established Visva Bharati, on the land his father got, to get away from the city's chaos. He called it Shantiniketan (Land of Peace).
While he painted 2500 paintings in the last 17 years of his life, most of his paintings were connected to surrealism and abstract art especially the animals.
Much to people’s surprise, the artwork was never as popular as Rabindranath Tagore's poems and writings during his lifetime, it is in fact after his death that his creation titillated audiences.
Tagore was always fascinated by folk/Baul and classical Western music and embedded it in his songs, which of course he credited to its due sources.
Rabi Thakur was not the only artistic one in his family, his nephews, Abanindranath and Gaganendranath were the pioneers of the Bengal School of Art.
After the demise of war poet Wilfred Owen, his mother found a pocketbook in his belongings and wrote a letter to Tagore describing how much it affected her and Owen. The letter is included in 'Gitanjali.'