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The Indian art scene today is awash with vibrant color and form, depicting themes that have had nearly a century of artistic and non-artistic influences. The vast diversity of these influences and the randomness with which they appear in daily life, have lead to a unique style of absorption in the Indian art form. Modern art in India goes beyond the more commonly seen ethnic or miniature paintings. It encompasses a variety of abstract and figurative themes, indicating a universal acceptance.
The mastery and diversity of Indian artists has seized for them, an important place in the international art world. Successful sales by Sothebys and Christies are evidence of this. Major art galleries and museums in various world capitals also feature collections of Indian art work. This, along with increasing commercial valuations have shown that art of the Indian subcontinent can be considered a sound investment.
Indian modern and contemporary artists are inheritors of their country’s great legacy of cultural variety and wealth and this awareness with its inherent influence is abundantly evident in the perceptions, subjects, styles and moods of their works. The breath of such awareness and influence in modern Indian art is very impressive
A variety of abstract and figurative paintings are indicative of the universal art created by Indian painters today, whose feelings of anxiety have derived as much from social problems in India as they have from global issues. Indian contemporary artists consider the whole world as resource material. Indian art today is refreshingly unselfconscious and being essentially indigenous of spirit, it is firmly rooted in the Indian psyche.
India, in the course of its splendiferous history of many millenniums had become one of the oldest and richest repositories of arts of varied forms and styles, representing, inheriting, blending and vibrating with its historical, linguistic, theological and cultural shifts and fusions brought in by the march of time and procession of events.
Indeed and sadly so, a large part of the national wealth was ravaged, plundered or pilfered away by hostile zealots, but what remains today still represents abundantly the nation’s precious wealth of artistic creations, profoundly manifesting India’s glory of its eventful and exiting past.
Contemporary Indian Art
