What is Indian contemporary art?
Art made by Indians today?
Something that is predominantly Indian from a surface sense?
Whats the difference between representing the Indian exotic life and the facts of the world around us?
Risqué painted females, Brahmin boys giving a lost gaze at the viewer. Cows or kites, which are perhaps pseudo depictions of Indian-ness in the arts.” Oh I am Indian, I will make a cow, oh I need a style, I will make the figures semi- ajanta –ish”. Is this the Indian modern art?
What is True Indian Modern Art?
Something that’s easily global on the surface , but is inherently Indian in a modern sense.
It’s a common notion and belief that Indian modern art started during the period after Amrita Shergil and during the Bombay art movement(find correct term).
If it is felt that Indian has really been modern since the last 15 or so years, how could the Indian modern art depict the modern life in the 50’s and 60’s?
The reason why it might be felt that Indian has been modern in the last decade or so, is because, of the free-er trade and commerce policies that were passed during the nineties. The arrival the of this free trade with less sanction provided what makes the modern world modern, the dependence on machine and technologies as well a shrinking world through communication and transportation. It is also related to the growing power of the bourgeoisie in the various markets and fields. That’s how the modern waves have been felt all over the world. The first need to make modern art came after the industrial revolution. The changing lifestyles made it apparent that the new art depicting the new world was needed. The same reasons and circumstances can be put here in the Indian environment.
Could it be that most of the artists in the First Indian modern art movement had exposure to international environment? They were and are all great artists and great modern artist no doubt. But were they essentially artists reacting to Indian social, spatial circumstances?
Modern art might be accomplished today, because how can it be done by an artist who doesn’t live in a modern world.
If the modern world has arrived, are we ready to take it on?
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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This will be the scope of discussions
INDIAN ART-DEFRAGMENTED
The interactive talk session would be held at Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi at 6.30 pm on 14th February 2010.
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