Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Hindu brown, For the Christian riles and the Hindu smiles and weareth the Christian down; And, the end of the fight is a tombstone while with the name of the late deceased and the epitaph drear, " A fool lies here who tried to hustle the east ". Rudyard Kipling. And, the West's academic art hustle on the East saw the Hindu brown smile and, begin a rebellion against western art education convinced it had no place in the Indian ethos or Indian psyche. Indian artists artwork as they struggled to give a pagan individuality to their brush strokes evinced more of the swish of a Bengal tiger tail than a Christian tameness. Bengal Renaissance, rejecting the company style of painting i.e. the kitsch, the calendar or bazaar art that had prevailed so far and, modern Indian art was born, of course, consequential to British denigration of Indian art and a political climate wherein, Indians sought to rid themselves of the foreign yoke. The resultant artworks of India's first great moderns Abanindranath Tagore, Nandlal Bose, Amrita Shergill, Jamini Roy have a special place in the great art collections of contemporary art galleries and art galleriesthat celebrate artist artwork of all genres. A careful study of the art collection of various art galleries containing a body of the Moderns artworks shows a strong resonance of the history of modern India.
As Bengal Renaissance with lingering European influences began to find a niche, F.N. Souza, enfant terrible of Indian contemporary art led a group of young rebels to set themselves up as the Progressive Artists Group (PAG) with a manifesto that promised freedom of expression and style. Summarily, they condemned the influences ofmodern Indian artists, Rabindranath Tagore as a self-obsessed introvert, Amrita Shergill as a hybrid, Jamini Roy as unsophisticatedly crude and, all other distinguished artists and influential teachers as sentimental. On their evolutionary journey as artists, their immense talent began a slow scorching of the art world with its unique fusion of western physicality and eastern spiritualism. Extreme professionalism and dedication to their art impressed Mulk Raj Anand, India's foremost art critic at the time leading him to arrange an exhibition for thecontemporary artworks and artists of PAG.Unconcerned about the content of the exhibition, he concentrated on providing a platform for this new, not yet fully formed voice of Indian contemporary art. Justifying his faith, the contemporary artworks and artists of PAG have been gained international recognition on par with some of the best western artists. Art galleries and contemporary art museums worldwide hang their artworks, a very integral part of their great art collections.
Regardless of recessionary trends in global markets, the art scene has witnessed a rising demand for Indian contemporary art. The death of F.N. Souza described by a British newspaper as India's most important, and famous modern artist has led his artworks to be sold for unprecedented prices at art auctions e.g. Mystic Repastsold for $153,000/- at Sotheby. While, his fellow PAG M.F. Hussain made a private sale to an NRI for $435,000/- without going through any art galleries or auction houses. As the contemporary artworks and artists of Indian origin become the flavour of the season, art galleries globe wise are suddenly going to extraordinary lengths to procure Indian contemporary art for their art collection. As, Vasudeo Gaitonde, Ram Kumar, Ganesh Pyne, Tyeb Mehta, Akbar Padmasee, to name a few, continue to establish the presence of contemporary artworks and artists from India in the great art collections of art galleries and contemporary art museums world over Gaitonde, a very active member of PAG is one of India's foremost painter of the abstract, large plane surfaces distilled with subtle paint layers give a meditative calm to his work. Abstractionism highlighted with translucent beams of light that suggest nothing but themselves and subliminal depths. A recipient of the Padma Shri, he is well represented in several Indian art collections and the great art collections of international museums.
The spotting of Ram Kumar's artworks by S.H. Raza at a group exhibition led to a lifelong friendship between two of PAG'sgreat artists. A training stint in Paris and Ram Kumar returned to India to paint about the human condition i.e. his early works depict the alienation of the individual within the city while latterly he paints the dilapidated and crowded houses of Varanasi, abstracts done in sweeping strokes of colour evoking an exultation of natural space and, recently the incipient violence within human habitation.
Ganesh Pyne influenced by the Tagore brothers in his early years painted watercolours before turning to gouache and latterly tempera with a change in figuration and colour palette. A skeletal element, a varied but noteworthy treatment of eyes, dark shadows compensated with golden umber tints, his canvases reflect the opposing attractions of death and eternal life.
kbar Padamsee, an inveterate modernist studied art both in Mumbai and Paris, a Sanskrit student as well, he is well versed in the Upanishadic forms of painting bound by lines and created from an positioning of surface strokes both real and transcendent. Experimenting with the Chinese method of Ku Fu his figures have an agile grace and an expression of ineffable sadness, his occasional landscapes expresses the dignity of infinite time.
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