Rabindranath and Gurudial Mallik

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Born in the North-West Frontier Province, Gurdial Malik spent the early part of his life in Quetta. As a student he came to know about Rabindranath through translations. He came to Santiniketan to meet Rabindranath where he also met C. F. Andrews. After the Jallianwalabagh massacre, when C. F. Andrews went to the Punjab for investigation, Gurdial was his companion. In 1920 he came to Santiniketan and started teaching English literature at the school. He knew Urdu, Pushto, Sindhi, Gujarati, Marathi, Hindi and a little Persian.
Gurdial Malik wrote on 29th January referring to the discussion made by Rabindranath and Abanindranath amongst themselves;
"Gurudev observed, in effect, that art belonged to the region of the intuition, the unconscious, the superfluous, It  was an ever-contitued integral activity, so that it could not be "disembodied" and debated upon." 
But the western artists enquired, " what is an art?" They want to know the detail of its inner sense , as because their art have reached in such  level which  appears to them of being dried up. According to Rabindranah, art is the expression of infinity. Though art must assume a form , but that must not be its goal. It should be abstract, exception  of which will be deception. 
" Was  art an expression, - accurate or artistic, - only of pleasure or pain, of an happening, historical or otherwise ? No, it should ever express the infinity, revealed through either of these elements. A realistic portryal of these could be called skill or decoration , but not art."
Gurdial Malik wrote a book, titled " Abanindranath Tagore in Santiniketan". (May- Oct, 1942 ). Rabindrtanath request Abanindranath to take the post of Chancellor of Viswabharati after hi demise