Indigenism : The Modern Indian Artist’s Dilemma
“….he(Indian artist) has to go through the school of world art. But to become a genuine artist he is not allowed to forget or suppress his racial and nationalist way of seeing, feeling, and shaping – he has to be an Indian artist or nothing at all. In the end his painting will be different […]
Gaganendranath Tagore: the epitome of fluid conjunction in Indian Art
Gaganendranath Tagore was the only Indian painter, who accepted and utilised the structurality and vernacularity of cubism until 1940s. Eclecticism had always been the key to strategies modernism and whenever Indian modern art is taken into consideration, it is evident through the contributions of Indian modern artists that they always preferred eclecticism to belligerent originality. […]