by Aicon Gallery, New York Location: Aicon Gallery, New York
Artist(s): Abanindranath TAGORE, Anjolie Ela MENON, Bikash BHATTACHARJEE, Jagdish SWAMINATHAN, Jamini ROY, Laxma GOUD, M. F. HUSAIN, S. H. RAZA, SADEQUAIN, F. N. SOUZA
Date: 12 Nov - 12 Dec 2009
An Exhibition of Post-Independance Indian Masters
Since the beginning of the 20th century Indian artists have attempted to articulate a vernacular visual language. This has often taken the form of taking Western art as something which had to be either rejected outright, or significantly changed in order to address an Indian vernacular.
This survey exhibition attempts to tease out a complex pattern of rejection, influence and echoing between artists working in Indian and Western Modernism and in the various ways those artists attempted to articulate a vernacular visual language.