Modern Indian Art (1).pptx

The Modern Art of India

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1500s Decline of Pahari -18th C The 1780s 1760-1840- Great Britain 17th C-Portuguese, Dutch, French, British Art and Artisan The John Company-1757 Company painting –Delhi , Patna, Calcutta British-British, British –Indian, Indian-British Kalighat, Bat-tala, Pattchitra- lithography introduction Topography, life, ruins, architecture, ethnography & natural history The Babu Culture & degeneration School of Art- Calcutta- 1854 Madras, Bombay presidency, Lahore Fine art exhibitions & High art Tilly Kettle, John Zoffany, William Hodges, George Chinnery, William Daniel, Lockwood Kipling

The Company School Paintings

Tilly Kettle- Shuja Ud Daulah, Oudh

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Sir Joshua Reynolds- British Royal Academy Company School Painting- Calcutta, Delhi, Lucknow, Patna, Tanjore Hybrid art Popular folk, Classical/ Elitist The Burden and the Blessing 1890-William Morris –Decorative arts Royal Lithography Press-1857-Diananth Das, Nobinchandra Ghose Raja Ram Mohan Roy Rise of Gentle man Artists Pestonji Bomanji, A.X Trindade, J.P Gangooly, M. Pithawala, G.k Mhatre, M.V Dhurandar Ravi Varma –Informal The new Indian Iconography Prints and illustrations (digests) The JJ School of Arts-Lockwood Kipling-1857 Indo –Saracenic

Gentlemen Artists

Mahadev Viswanath DhurandarAn Ex-student & teacher of Sir. J.J School of Arts

Lady offering Money

Offering to Lord

Sheshashayi

On the Banks of Jamuna

Pestonji Bomanji

A story about Betweenness

J.P Gangooly

Bamapada Banerjee

Calcutta Prints

Raja Ravi Varma • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

1848-1906 Address to heterogeneous society Paintings and oleographs Baroda, Mysore etc. Indian Nationalism Marathi, Parsi theatres, Kathakali…(Balgandharva) Women as temptress and goddess Mythical heroines, celestials(Damayanti, Shakuntala) Mythical women and Indian iconography Calcutta art studio and Ravi Varma Printing Press lithography, chromolithography, oleograph The past and the present Contribution to Indian Cinema and serials Corpothetics Eclecticism

Kitsch, consumer culture & Advertisement

The Beginning of Nationalism    

The aesthetic self awareness Orientalist researches Antiquity and romanticizing E.B Havell ‘The Ideals of Indian Art’  Kakuzo Okakura –’The Ideals of the East’          

John Griffith Indologists and History making Banaras Hindu University –Madan Mohan Malavya Textual approach and investigation of religious texts, literature ,language (Max Muller) Mythic glorious past of Aryan civilization New women imageries and ideal womanhood Nationalist criticisms Mahatma Gandhi-Ruskin Rabindranath- Vruksharopan, Varshamangal Abanindranath Tagore- Artistic Revival-1900s

 A.K Coomaraswamy and Indian defense against western bias-Spirituality- ’Mediaeval Sinhalese Art’, Essays in National Idealism, Art & Swadesi    

E B Havell/, W. Morris- Arts and Crafts Movement Vivekananda, Sister Nivedita, Aurobindo ..-Pan Asianism The Theosophical Society, Madras –Hindu Metaphysics Mysticism, Bhakti, Sufi revival

 Rabindranath Tagore- Ghare Baire, Charulata, Chokher Bali,  Swadesi Movement  Function of Art in Shaping Nationality  Buddhist , Confucian philosophies  Distinction between Rupatmaka and Bhavatmaka  Rasa, Dhwani , Alamkarasastras , Shadanga  1922, Kala Bhawan -Nandalal Bose  Haripura Posters  1919 –Kala Bhavana  Arai Kampoo, Taikan and Hishida  Introduction to Wash

 Ajanta and Bagh caves  Bhadralok  Gaganendranath

Unending Love

Brooding

Abanindranath Tagore

Night at the Shalimar

The journey’s End

Fate and Pleasure

Asoka’s Queen

The Passing of Shahjahan

Nandalal Bose

Gandhari

Sati

Siva Drinking Poison

Shantiniketan Murals 1909-Lady Herringham & N Bose Surendranath Kar

Bagh mural copy-Nandalal Bose

Patha Bhawan Office-Nandalal Bose

The Birth of Chaitanya

Trikaleswara, Kirti Mandir , Baroda

Halakarshan

Shapmochan- Patha Bhawan

Benod Bihari Mukherjee -(1904-1980)Contextual Modernism- R. Siva Kumar Bose-Baij KGS, Rammanohar, Somnath Hore & Satyajit Ray ‘The Inner Eye’

Hindi Bhawan -1947

Prabasi-1931

The Life of the Medieval Saints

Jamini Roy (1887-1972)

Ganesh Janani

The Last Supper

Amrita Shergil (1913- 41)-

Woman at Bath

Mother India

The Bride’s Toilet

Brahmacharis

The Ancient storytellers

Gaganendranath Tagore (1867-1938)

Himalayan Bride

Bauhaus

Ramkinker Baij Ghatak – Ramkinker R. Siva Kumar

Mill Call

Coolie mother

Abdul Rehman Chughtai-(1899-1975)Ustad Ahmad

K.G Subramanyan

1924- 2016 Toy projects

Fishes and Fossils

Rabindralaya ,Lucknow

Trends in 1940s Quit India and Partition Tuning from Romantic to Indian contemporary art. Fauvist developments. 1920-Bombay and Calcutta Shergil and successors

The Calcutta Progressive Group-1942

Internationalism and individualism Nirode Majumdar, Gopal Ghose, Paritosh Sen, Prodosh Das Gupta, Mulk Raj Anand, Art criticism –Shahid Suhrawardy, Sudhindra Dutta and Bishnu Dey

Nirode Majumdar

Gopal Ghose

The Bombay Progressives/PAG-1947 Bombay GroupFrancis N Souza , M.F Hussain, K.H Ara, Raza, H.A Gade, K.K. Hebbar, Vasudev Gaitonde, D.G. Kulkarni , S.K Bakre Dr. Mulk Raj Anand Krishen Khanna, Akbar Padamsee and Tayeb Mehta Bombay Art Society

Abstract Expressionism The Delhi Shilpi Chakra-1949 BC Sanyal, Kanwal Krishna, Pran Nath Mago Lahore, Delhi, socio-economic unrest All India Association of Fine Arts of Bombay Jaya Appaswamy, Satish Gujaral, Rameswar Broota, Jag Mohan Chopra, Anupam Sood

F.N Souza1924-2002

JJ S

Pieta

The Supper at Emmaus

K.H Ara 1914

M.F Hussain

Bendre

Theater of Absurd

S. H Raza

PAG- Sadanand Bakre

V.S Gaitonde

Nasreen Mohamedi

Akbar Padamsee

1928, Bombay

Tyeb Mehta -1929-2009

Mahishasura

Somnath HoreBengal Famine-1943 Tebhaga Movement-1946

Chittaprosad Bhattacharya

Rameswar Broota

Unidentified Soldier

The Runners

Anjolie Ela Menon

Dilli ki Diva

The Delhi Shilpi Chakra1949

B. C Sanyal

Kanwal Krishna

K.K Hebbar

Dadasaheb Phalke M. F Hussain Amol Palekar Satish Gujaral Tayeb Mehta F N Souza Jitish Kallat Atul Dodiya Akbar Padamsee Jatin Das k.K Hebbar Raza V.S Gaitonde

Cholamandalam Artist Village-1967

The Madras Art Movt Govt School of Arts and Crafts

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KCS Panikker (Madras School of Arts) K. Ramanujam S. Nandagopal M. Senatipathi J. Sultan Ali Haridasan S S. G Vasudev M.V Devan Gopinath Thotta Tharini

KCS Panikker

K. Ramanujam

S.G Vasudev

Nandagopal

 Faculty of Fine Arts , M.S University, Baroda-1950  KGS, Ghulam Muhammed Sheikh-1937, Jeram Patel.   Shanti Dave, Vivan Sundaram, Mrinalini Mukherjee, Rekha Rodwitya, Nilima Sheikh..  Est of Lalit Kala Academy-1954, NGMA…  Contemporary Art Scenario

 Alex Mathew, Ravindra Reddy, Pushpamala, Dhruva Mistry, Om Prakas Khare,

Kerala Radical Group

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K.P Krishna Kumar Alex Mathew N.N Rimzon Prabhakaran T.K Sadasivan Akitham Vasudevan K. M Madhusudhanan

The Contemporary Art Scenario

Ghulam Muhammed Sheikh-1937

Speaking Street

Returning Home After a Long Absence

Revolving Routes1981

Nilima Sheikh

Dreaming of Earthly Paradise

Each Night Put Kashmir in Your Dreams

You Cant Please All

First Day in New York

Man with a Bouquet of Plastic Flowers

Two men in Banaras

Vivan Sundaram Blue wave

Retake on Amrita

The Great Indian Bazaar

Mrinalini Mukherjee

Meera Mukherjee

Ashoka at Kalinga

Dhruva Mistry

Atul Dodiya

Sudheer Patwardhan

An ode to Mumbai

Family Fiction

Station Road

Anupam Sood

Kurmavatar

Worship of Dasa matas

Kisse-e Noor Mohammed

Everything is Inside

Cloud Sound