Indian Art Defragmented- Interactive art discussion on Indian contemporary art

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.

Indian Art-Defragmented (talk/discussion on indian art)

UPDATE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi guys,

' The fragmented few' is coinciding , the opening of their art exhibition with an interactive art talk session"Indian Art Defragmented'with the luminaries of the Indian Art Field as well art lovers, connoisseurs and people from the media world.
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.

The exhibition is one of a kind physical and online exhibition. The show will open for public on 14th of February 2010 and will be on display till 18th of February 2010 at Convention Foyer, India Habitat Center, Lodhi Road, New Delhi.


Drop in for a visual experience that will perhaps give you a different perspective to the world which deals in looking at the world around us in fragments of simpler smaller things that constitute it , fragments that are easily overlooked in their entirety and without the context of the sum of fragments.
It will be a visual treat definitely for you 'thinkers' out there too, as there would be many art intellectual speakers at the event . And yes , even your views on the topics of discussion would be highly precious.

Art can be a movement, it can also be propaganda, it can be philosophy , a life style, its usually considered a fragment of entertainment , yet in its entirety it can be a complete self sustaining universe . Whatever our view , we can have discussions as long as we agree to disagree.
I hope that our message comes across to you and and together we could see that the art is an 'thing unto itself'. A fragment that’s complete on its own too, a fragment that that make us look at the world around us in a unified perspective .
We will update the thread with more details about the event, we will let you also know the list of art luminaries who will be attending the talk session and exhibition.
And yes, last but not the least , we will upload the artworks for you guys to enjoy the show.
Stay tuned for updates and art.
We will also update the thread for articles on art by the art literaries as well as the artists featuring in the exhibition.