Top 7 Contemporary Indian artist making astonishing art
Contemporary Indian Art Mihir Kayal

Top 7 Contemporary Indian artist making astonishing art

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SAIKAT MONDAL

Saikat Mondal is a landscape artist and fine arts curator

What is Contemporary Indian Painting?

If you’re a fine art lover interested in India, then you must have heard about contemporary Indian paintings that are gaining popularity. In this post, we will learn about Indian contemporary painting and take a look at 7 contemporary and emerging Indian painters and their work. From traditional to modern styles, these artists are redefining the way Indian art is viewed both domestically and internationally. So if you’re curious to see what’s happening in the Indian modern art world right now, be sure to check out their work!

Why should you buy a Contemporary Indian painting?

Some economic factors like increasing income, population growth, and high inflation are expected to drive economic growth in India. Painting is now considered an important part of Indian culture that contributes towards art tourism. Painting can be used both to decorate your home or office for home decor. The painting is also known as one of the best investment options for high returns if you can collect the right one from the popular art galleries of India.

Moreover, having an Indian painting with Indian context at home will create immerse value to the cultural upbringing of the metaverse we are living.

The Indian Contemporary art are valuable for both historical and religious sentiments. The Indian art market has been seeing a steady rise because of an increase in awareness about the investment value of paintings from India.

 

Indian paintings that will make an impact in any home or office space?

The impact of a painting or Indian paintings to be specific goes far beyond any other form of decoration because it tells a story, evokes emotions and memories. Some paintings have been around for years and have the power to transform the mood not just outwards but inwards too. In the recent past, Indian artists are rediscovering their roots by capturing both their contemporary sensibilities.

Today, several renowned artists have emerged with their impeccable talent through artistic inclinations and creative abilities to excel at their work.

Mihir Kayal Artsit
Work of Mihir Kayal that can be installed in everyday room

Atul Dodiya

Atul Dodiya born in Mumbai and one of the important modern Indian artists. The works of Dodiya, an artist who takes inspiration from many traditional artists but reinterprets their style with a contemporary perspective. Dodiya’s artworks are valuable because of their contemporary perspective, vibrant colors, and bold compositions. He creates works that are distinctive but still have the power to engage with viewers on an emotional level.

Gabbar painting Atul Dodiya
Gabbar on Gamboge – Atul Dodiya 1997 View this on Google Art & Culture

Reena Saini Kallat

Reena Saini Kallat’s work is a meditation on the cycles of life and death, birthright. She absorbs herself into these ideas through her use as an artist or writer who documents both natural processes like plant growth with minute attention to detail.

Kallat has investigated a myriad of historical periods of migration, mining of shared resources for national benefit as well as archives of missing people. The concept of the hybrid is now a symbol of potential for Kallat’s work as a way to thwart the divisions of national lines and divisive narratives. Barriers can be dissolved and that they can be rearranged and reshaped, is a notion that is evident in the work of Kallat by twisting electric cables into a barbed wire. She draws on the paradox of technology to allow freedom of information flow and a restriction on movement to suggest that complete isolation is not feasible. When there is contact, there is the possibility of exchange and the possibility of fusion.

 

REENA SAINI KALLAT - Woven Chronicle
Woven Chronicle, 2016
REENA SAINI KALLAT
Installation view, Museum of Modern Art, New York

This contemporary Indian artist comments on human endeavours such has language creation; exploring what it means for something “to exist” in terms beyond physical existence (a reference often found within science fiction).

Bharti Kher

Bharti Kher became one of the most popular contemporary and expensive Indian artists when she moved from London to New Delhi. Her work features a combination between painting, sculpturing, mixed media art, and installation. Those works often incorporates bindis, the forehead decoration worn by Indian women, into her paintings as well as animals or nature themes.

Kheres’ pieces have been successful at global auctions receiving bids up £1 million from buyers around Europe recently!

Bharti Kher the nemesis of nations Indian Highway
The Nemesis of Nations’, exhibited in ‘Indian highway’ at Serpentine gallery, london, 2008/2009, bindis on fiberglass

 

Subodh Gupta

Indian artist Subodh Gupta is the husband of Bharti Kher and a sculptor who has captured the essence of India in his work. His art reflects not only economic transformation, but also everyday life events that are memory triggers for him such as marriage or children being born into new families at home with loved ones around them.

 

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They are celebrating joyous occasions together – all whilst still holding on tightly to what was important before it changed so drastically during times when things were very different than they currently stand today.

He uses various media including paintings which evolved over time into other forms like metal pieces welded together then carved out again based upon how much energy one wanted to display.

Subodh Gupta Art
Subodh Gupta
U.F.O., 2007
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Umesh Jana

Umesh Jana is a visual artist who explores the complexity and contradictions of urban life through his art. His mediums include sculptures made out of metal scraps, mixed media paintings on found materials like cardboard boxes or trash bags that he uses as canvases for discarded items.

From society’s consumer culture such things engine parts left at gas stations after being used during accidents.

These “found” pieces are then incorporated into new work with other objects collected by pedestrians walking down city streets which become fodder in this ongoing creative process where themes about power struggles play themselves.

Umesh Jana Artist So called development
SO CALLED DEVELOPMENT, Umesh Jana

 

Samir Sarkar

Samir Sarkar’s paintings are a reflection of the artist himself. They often feature human figures with headgear and faces paint on them, which represent how people can be both good or bad depending on their situation in life (the duality). He use layers of acrylics to create these pieces that give it an authentic sense because he uses fast colors for added brightness when capturing figure statuses like “portraying”.

The bright colors he uses to give his work that authentic sense of reality which cannot be found anywhere else!

Samir Sarkar Artist

 

Mihir Kayal

Mihir Kayal, one of the brilliant artists based in Kolkata uses his magical visual composition to convey a sense of beauty from what we know. His work helps you see life as it should be seen- with more color and depth than before while still managing to capture how chaotic things can get at times even for those who strive hardest on this earth.

Mihir’s work of art appears to have been inspired by traditional Indian arts. It bears a good degree of rawness but is wrapped in the right visual aesthetics, thereby making it authentic and natural for viewers who can relate with his deep emotions through their the less outsider perspective on life.

Mihir Kayal Artist

Mihir says that he is always searching for some inner truth which eludes him intellectually. Somehow one senses there must be meaning behind what seems like random shapes or colors when you look at them from another point-of view the artist feels this experience as if coming home after an arduous journey where all becomes clear.

 

If you are looking for some fresh perspectives on Indian art, then look no further. We have compiled a list of contemporary and emerging artists to help get you started with your collection. Each artist has their unique style which is sure to intrigue both the novice collector as well as the seasoned connoisseur of modern arts.

One artist that stands out is Mihir Kayal. He has an impressive body of work with a diverse range of subject matter and mediums. His artwork can be found in galleries all over India so if you love his style or want to collect some pieces by him as he continues to grow as an emerging artist, now is your chance! You may check some of his work at TheBengalCraft

 

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