Knowledge of Indian Contemporary Arts and Artists

Indian contemporary arts and artists

Pearl Khurana

INDEX

Introduction

contemporary fashion

Contemporary architecture

Bengal school of art

Contemporary artists

Progressive Artsists Groups

India art fair

Contemporary arts of india

bibliography

Indian contemporary Arts

Contemporary Indian art fuses multiple concepts and forms of media to express both traditional Indian and non-traditional themes.

With time, the dissimilarity between grouping, portraits, sculpture, collages and fittings is getting blurred. The new Indian painters are employing all sorts of mediums to enhance their work and they are unafraid of experimenting. They do not want to be labelled in a particular category like a watercolourist, terracotta artist or as oil painter.

The Bengal School of Art

• Established by Abanindranath Tagore & E.B. Havell attempted to reconnect Indian artists with their past
• Paved way for future modernist movement, reshaped contemporary taste by drawing inspiration from the past & bringing awareness to the heritage of Indian Artists
• Alumni: Ganesh Pyne, Manishi Dey, Nirmal Dutta, Nilima Dutta, Jahar Dasgupta, Sudip Roy, Paresh Maiti, etc.

Progressive Artist's GroupFounders

Progressive Artist's Group

• Post-Indian Independence, many schools given access to modern techniques and ideas
• The Group aimed at establishing new ways of expressing Indian art in the post-colonial era
• Changed the idiom (a style) of art
• Influential artists: Bal Chabda, Manishi Dey, Mukul Dey, V.S. Gaitonde, Ram Kumar, Tyeb Mehta, Akbar Padamsee
• Group dissolved in 1956

Indian Contemporary Artsinclude:

• Paintings
• Print
• Photography
• Sculpture
• Ceramics

• Installation
• Performing arts
• Design/Fashion
• Film/Video
• Drawing

Contemporary Fashion

• The 1980s were marked by
• the growth of fashion schools in India
• Increased involvement of women in the fashion industry
• Indian and Western clothing fusion changed the face of Indian Clothing

Contemporary Architecture

• Cosmopolitian with extremely compact and densely populated cities
• E.g. : Art Deco buildings in Nariman Point of Mumbai, Lotus Temple in New Delhi
• Modern Urban Developments like Chandigarh

Indian contemporary Artists

Working across performance, installation, photography, painting, sculpture, fashion, and ceramics, each artist has a distinctive aesthetic vocabulary, which affirms their place in the global canon of contemporary art.

Some Indian Contemporary Artists

India Art Fair

• Includes paintings, sculptures, photography, mixed media, prints, drawings, & video art
• Showcases Indian Modernists, India diaspora artists, contemporary Indian art, international artists,

• Previously known as the India Art Summit
• Indian modern & contemporary art fair held annually in New Delhi
• First held in 2008

indiaartfair.in

Bibliography & Further Reading Guide

• Indian Contemporary Art History: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-arthistory/chapter/contemporary-indian-art/

• Indian Contemporary Artists:https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-10-indian-artists-shaping-contemporary-art

• More on Indian Contemporary Artists:https://www.artsy.net/collection/contemporary-indian-artists

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