65 years after India's independence Indian art continues to evolve and seek new ways to interact with the audience

Today, 65 years after India gained its independence, the modern art of this country is experiencing a real flourish. Young Indian artists have not only returned to the national origins of art, freeing it from imitations of Europe, but also well oriented in the realities of the contemporary art market, are actively experimenting and involve the audience in an interesting dialogue about the phenomena of modern life of their country.

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Update Indian art began in 1948, a year after the declaration of independence, when a group of artists which included Maqbool Fida Husain (MF Husain), Francis Newton Souza (FN Souza), Akbar Padamsi (Akbar Padamsee) and Tayeb Mehta ( Tyeb Mehta) have created a group of progressive artists Bombay to develop a recognizable art Indian style. They wanted their art to replace the art of the era of British rule, which in recent years, it was a variation on the theme of European Expressionism and American Abstract Expressionism. Independence has opened for artists and new horizons for the art market.

«However, until the early 2000s the Indian art market is represented mainly in the rapidly growing number of galleries, has been subject to constant fluctuations," - says Sidharto Tagore (Siddharth Tagore), the young owner of the auction house and gallery Art Bull Art Konsult. "The market for contemporary Indian art began to take shape in 2004 when the country has several auction houses," - says Tagore, whose auction house is focused on middle-class shoppers from northern India and sells them to the work of young artists. "Our target audience - residents of cities such as Chandigarh and Ludhiana, the potential is there that the big markets of the future", - predicts Tagore. Greater freedom has come to mean more and more galleries, more creative freedom, the dominance of educated people among the buyers - the so-Tagore described the general features of Indian art since 1947.

«A new generation of artists who are now 20 35, is theme for his work in all sections of reality: they think about city life and village life, about social issues, human sorrow, religion and culture in general, violence, even allow themselves to joke about the powers that be "- considers art agent Kieran Mohan (Kiran Mohan). To commemorate the 65th anniversary of the declaration of independence, India Mohan organized in the gallery exhibition Art Value "Steps of Freedom". Exposure explores the essence of the understanding of freedom in Indian art on the example of about 50 works by various artists. "Every artist wants to express an independent India and a display on the canvas the significance of such concepts as freedom," - shared in an interview «The Times of India» Mohan. The young artist Mahalik Sanjeev (Sanjeev Mahalik) depicted against the background of the national tricolor women committed infanticide. "I wanted to understand why this is still happening in today's world where most people are literate, and women are available to new horizons of life" - he explained.

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Radha Shyam Pradhan Artist (Radhe Shyam Pradhan) used the colors of Indian flag - green, white and orange - to create images of the three members of different castes, each holding a one to three long flute. 'Harmony - the only thing that brings people together, helping to unite and development of society that are so important for independent India ", - says the artist. He created a series of portraits of Gandhi, one of which depicts three monkeys, get out of my head and saying, Mahatma people about that they did not look at evil, evil did not listen to speeches and pronounce them yourself (it's humorous interpretation of the famous Indian proverb). Image of three monkeys - four hundred Japanese character, often think of in connection with the philosophy of Gandhi. This image has become an integral part of Indian culture, as in the Ashram Sabarmati based Gandhi, where he lived from 1915 to 1930, was a small sculpture of three monkeys.

Artist Amitesh Verma (Amitesh Verma) believes that the young artists of our day - is the future gold reserve of Indian art. The author, known for his images of horses, said "come back to spiritual roots after wandering in foreign lands." "I realized that we misunderstand their own culture. For the new exhibition, I wrote a profile on a background of foreign poems about women from the Vedas and Puranas ", - told the artist. "It is strange that the West has maintained its ancient religious traditions in art, whereas in the past decade we have moved away from" - he said.

«Art independence era - is rapidly developing, aiming process in the future - says Kishore Singh, an art historian (Kishore Singh), head of the Fine Arts Gallery Publications New Delhi. - Artists like Satish Gujral, and Hussein (Satish Gujral) art closer to people, creating a large-scale wall paintings and experimenting with art in the streets, that made of ordinary people participating creative process ».

Prepared Estrova Maria, AI

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