Rabindranath learnt drawing in his childhood and was attracted to the sketches drawn by his elder brother Jyotirindranath.
In 1924, while writing Purabi he started doodling on the pages of his manuscript.
The main outcome of the visit of Rabindranath in Argentina was his beginning of paintings. The doodling in the poetries in his manuscript was seen long ago. At the beginning of the journey of Rabindranath to the South America, specially in Andes ship, The exaggerations of the ornamental decoration by doodlings in the poems written by Rabindranath in the ship was visible at that moment. Rabidranth liked to read journey story book. And when he decided to visit a new country he tried to gather sufficient informations as far possible.
"The reference of a book in this respect was worth mentioning", said Sushovan Adhikari. This book was preserved in the Museum, Kalabhavan. " The Art of old Peru " , edited by Walter Lehmann, Director of the Ethnological Institute of the Berlin Ethnological Museum, assisted by Heinrich Doering, London.
The government of Peru promised to donate a good amount of money to Shantiniketan but this was not maintained as he decided to stay in Argentina.
Rabindranth was given a farewell by the important pesons of the University of Argentina on 2nd jan 1925.He started for Europe on 3rd Jan, 1925, with Elmhirst in an Italian Ship As per the claim of Victoria Ocampo, an used sofa was allowed to enter the cabin by breaking the door of the cabin where rabindranath would take his rest.
Many news paper published his visit to Argentina.
