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New Thapar Gallery Exhibition Explores India’s Many Modernisms
A new art exhibition in New Delhi brings together paintings and sculptures by many important Indian artists.
It is called “Many Modernisms: Figuring the New Artistic India.”
The show says Indian modern art did not follow just one style.
Different artists responded to changes in Indian society in different ways.
Some works show people, villages and everyday life.
Others explore religion, mythology, colour, meditation and abstract ideas.
The exhibition includes artists such as Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher-Gil and MF Husain.
It also includes artists from different generations and places.
The show will remain open until October 15.
“Many Modernisms: Figuring the New Artistic India” is underway at Thapar Gallery.
The exhibition features influential artists including Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher-Gil, MF Husain, FN Souza and Ram Kumar.
It presents Indian modernism as a diverse, evolving field rather than one unified movement.
The works explore landscape, mythology, faith, the human body, labour, memory and everyday life.
The exhibition examines artistic responses to a changing India and closes on October 15.
- Who
- Artists including Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher-Gil, MF Husain, FN Souza, Ram Kumar and many others.
- What
- An exhibition titled “Many Modernisms: Figuring the New Artistic India.”
- Where
- Thapar Gallery in New Delhi.
- When
- It is currently underway and will close on October 15.
- Why
- To explore the varied ways Indian artists imagined and represented a society undergoing social and cultural change.
Key facts
- Exhibition
- Many Modernisms: Figuring the New Artistic India
- Venue
- Thapar Gallery
- Location
- New Delhi
- Closing date
- October 15
- Featured artists
- Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher-Gil, MF Husain, FN Souza and Ram Kumar
- Artistic themes
- Landscape, mythology, faith, the human body, labour, memory and everyday life
- Central idea
- Indian modernism is presented as plural, evolving and shaped by different histories, experiences and artistic visions.
Quotes
The organisers
Organisers of the exhibition
“Modern Indian art did not emerge as a single style, at a single point in time, or from any one particular location. At its heart was a response to a changing society and to the ways in which that change could be seen, experienced, remembered and imagined”
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“Together, these practices reflect the breadth of artistic responses that shaped modern Indian art across generations and geographies”
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Sources
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