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	Which Way Indian Art? by Mukul Dey
		Havell retired from the Government School of Art an Englishman was chosen to be the Principal and with the consequent resignation of Tagore in 1915 the Indian Art Department was practically abolished from the Government Art School, Calcutta.
		Art students flocked round Tagore's own studio in his Jorasanko house where they were always welcome and where they learnt all Tagore had to teach without having to bear the expenses of their education.
		Recent art in India remained true to what, broadly spoken, might be said to have been throughout the centuries the distinguishing characteristic of Hindu as compared with European art, namely this, that the artist had aimed at giving expression to mental concepts rather than at reproducing the objects of the external world around him.
	www.chitralekha.org /indianart.htm (3128 words)

	Roots: Art & Culture
		The Bengal School came into existence in a period of incipient nationalism, and its decline coincided with the partial success of nationalism.
		Atul Bose (1898-1977) achieved eminence as a portrait painter; L M Sen as a painter of Christian themes; Depiprasad Rai Chowdhury (1893-1975) as a sculptor and a teacher at the Madras School or Art and Hemen Mazumdar (1895-1944) as a painter of the female form...
		The earliest was the Bengal School begun in 1897 by Abanindranath Tagore, in which the cultivated "Orientalism" of the School got a boost from the political movements protesting the first Partition of Bengal in 1905.
	sankalpa.tripod.com /roots/s1artcul.html (3259 words)

	Indian art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Indian art is constantly challenged as it rises to the peak of achieving the ideals of one philosophy in a visual form, then begins anew for another.
		In the Indian context, the visual arts (sculpture, painting and architecture) are tightly interrelated with the non-visual arts.
		The dancing girl from Mohenjodaro, various seals from Harappa and other art objects show that there was a clear knowledge of anatomy of the human figure, as well as a high degree of awareness and perception of animal forms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_art (1169 words)

	Century old paintings of Bengal art on auction
		Bengal has been associated with liberal and contemporary arts since time immemorial and the Bengal art movement has been one of the foremost movements in the country.
		The Bengal school of art dates back to the 19th century, where the Tagores spearheaded the literary work and it snowballed into a way of life.
		He said the main idea of the auction is to showcase the collection of the Bengal arts and trace the story of the evolution of the art in this region.
	news.webindia123.com /news/articles/India/20060818/425315.html (215 words)

	Chawla Art Gallery
		Born in Sindh, Gopi Gajwani graduated in Art from the Delhi school of Art in 1959.
		Jatin Das was born in Orissa and studied painting at the Sir J.J. School of Art in Mumbai.
		Her individual exhibitions were held in the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1966, Museum of Santiago in 1999, and in the exhibition hall of Catholic University of North Antofagasta in 2001.
	www.chawla-artgallery.com /profiles_01.htm (9121 words)

	Advent of Art in Bengal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		During this time, 'Indian Society of Oriental Art' was established, and the organization greatly helped in coalescing different forms of Indian art into a meaningful art movement.
		Bengal School of Art, an independent art-form typical of Bengal, can be said to have come into being in 1920, after Nandalal Bose made Santiniketan his permanent abode.
		Bengal's art movement gained further momentum in 1943, when the art organization 'Calcutta Group' was formed.
	www.felexcrafts.com /articles/perspective3-indian-art.htm (530 words)

	The Tribune...Arts Tribune
		To my mind what the Bengal School of Art did for creating art consciousness among the people of Bengal, this “home of art” has done, in Punjab under the presidentship of Thakur Singh who was a legend in his lifetime.
		Organising art exhibitions and recognising artistic merit on all-India basis is one of the oldest and most important activities of the academy.
		The Thakur Singh School of Art is another wing of the academy helping the aptitude of both the young and the old to develop into artistic talent.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1998/98jul31/art-trib.htm (2886 words)

	The Hindu : Exhibits from the Bengal school
		Visitors were presented a vivid picture of trends during the 19th Century in the field of Bengal art, an aspect that brought village artists to Calcutta to compete with the colonial school.
		The traditional art was widespread in the rural areas, presenting conventional images of gods and goddesses in their puranic narrative settings.
		The Calcutta School of Art, which was established during this period, imparted a European style of academic training to Indian artists.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2000/05/14/stories/1314007g.htm (987 words)

	The Art and Artists of India
		ART INDIA is committed to the promotion of excellence and genuine quality in the arts.
		Sanat Chatterjee is a prominent contemporary Indian artist and one of the last living masters of Bengal school of art.
		The history of Indian Art is the saga of the Indian man, emerging from very austere beginnings and moving towards wider vistas.
	www.zeroland.co.nz /indian_art.html (612 words)

	webindia123.com-Art of West Bengal-Dance of West Bengal
		Courtesans and temple girls (devadasis) were required to be proficient in the art of dance prescribed by Bharata in his 'Natysastra'.
		Rabindranath Tagore has the credit of rehabilitating dancing as a fine art to be learnt by young as a part of their education.
		He had profound admiration for the rich treasure of the classical dances of India but he thought these required too rigid a discipline and too elaborate a training to be feasible for the general public.
	www.webindia123.com /westbengal/Art/dance.htm (510 words)

	webindia123.com-Art of West Bengal-Music of West Bengal-kirtan style-gharana style
		The open spaces, the winding rivers and the beautiful villages have from the long past have inspired rural bards to compose and sing songs of their joys and sorrows to the tune of the bamboo flute and the ektara (one-stringed lyre) or the dotara (two stringed lyre) and the dhal and khol (percussion instruments).
		Some other masters of this school were retained by Devendrnath Tagore for coaching the members of his family and also for setting the music of Brahmo devotional songs in the solemn and dignified style of Dhrupad.
		A lighter style of song which had great vogue in nineteenth century Bengal is Tappa, originally introduced during the first half of the century by Ramnidhi Gupta or Nidhu Babu who composed a number of memorable songs of secular love in Bengali which became quite a fashion among the gentry in a short time.
	www.webindia123.com /westbengal/Art/music.htm (601 words)

	Original Painting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Above this theories we can say that painting as well as all other forms of art are strongly connected with religious or spiritual consciousness, they seem to remind us of our spiritual essence and existence and the fact that prehistoric men have done it seems like an unarguable proof of it.
		This art original painting was widely used until the invention of printing press and is now what is called illustration.
		Modern painting influenced all visual arts, from architecture to design and became an experimental laboratory in which artists stretched the limits of this medium to his extreme.
	www.originalpainting.biz (3849 words)

	Art of Bengal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		An art school was established in Calcutta in 1854, with the blessing of the colonial government, resulting in making pre-art school artists redundant.
		Even the entry of art school trained print-makers with their equipment for lithographic printing as competitors, could not make much of the dent in their market; for the burgeoning market had space for everyone, till the coming into vogue of processed block printing of designs and images in the first decade of the 20
		The most significant body of drawings and paintings of nineteenth century Bengal, however, are the Kalighat pats, created by a close knit group of clay modellers and painters from rural areas who settled down in the vicinity of the Kali temple of Kalighat locality in Calcutta, in search of employment.
	www.passion4art.com /kejriwal/art.html (3239 words)

	Bengal art picks up colour on auction street- The Economic Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Art analysts feel that high quality Bengal School paintings with sound provenance could fetch healthy tags at future auctions of Indian contemporary art overseas.
		It was also a proof that Bengal School art, which is not generally represented in a big way at auctions, can score high numbers if quality pieces with strong provenance go under the hammer,” an art market source told ET.
		Other Bengal School artists, who could be having tidy prices in store for buyers are Ram Kinkar Baij, the Tagores — Rabindranath, Abanindranath and Gaganendranath — Nandalal Bose, Hemen Mazumdar and Atul Bose.
	economictimes.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1494100.cms (470 words)

	Keeping Mulk Raj’s heritage alive - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		His launching of Marg, a journal of arts, in 1946, in collaboration with the Tata Group, was another pointer to Anand’s commitment to “rediscover the heritage of Indian and Asian art through the centuries” and to examine “the contemporary trends in architecture, sculpture, painting and graphic design”.
		The Bengal School of Art represented art history in its exhibits by the younger generation.
		Bengal Masters, an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Shyamal Dutta Ray and Prakash Karmokar and others was a memorable event.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/dec182005/finearts14274720051216.asp (1143 words)

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		Nandalal Bose who had studied under Abanindranath Tagore, founder of the Bengal School of Art, first headed the Art School, or 'Kala Bhavan', as it is known.
		The question of the time was whether to revive old art forms of the glorious past or to adopt the western techniques with the sparkle of the modern European mind, and the spectacular achievements of the west.
		The tension and warmth that saturated his works were a reflection of a conscious, creative personality engaged in the rigorous endeavor to evolve and project an image of Indian modernity.
	www.the-south-asian.com /art_pg_2.htm (453 words)

	Ganesh Pyne: Ganesh Pyne paintings, art work at Palette Art Gallery, India
		Initially, Pyne painted watercolors and sketches of misty mornings and wayside temples, variously influenced as he was by Walt Disney and the art of Abanindranath Tagore.
		Today, he is known as the foremost exponents of the Bengal School of art.
		Palette art gallery new delhi showcases collection of contemporary art india.
	www.paletteartgallery.com /artistbiography.asp?artistid=64 (513 words)

	The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Niharika Sethi of the Delhi College of Art was constantly motivated by her father, who himself could not pursue his interest and joined the Army.
		While the art scene in Delhi and the country was changing, the National Gallery was identifying, collecting and preserving the treasures of Indian art.
		Spread over a 15-acre plot, this school was established in 2000 with over 50 students, mostly from the rural pockets of Greater Noida.
	www.the-week.com /24dec12/lifestyle_article7.htm (1659 words)

	Bangladesh art
		The Institute was earlier known as Government Institute of Art and was founded by the well-known artist Zainul Abedin and some of his colleagues in 1948.
		His article is an explicit account of the political and social milieu in which contemporary art evolved in Bangladesh.
		‘Contemporary Art of Bangladesh’ is a well-written record of the history of contemporary art in the country.
	www.the-south-asian.com /Contemporary_art_Bangladesh.htm (594 words)

	21st Century Indian Art
		In the field of Art, Santiketan is credited with the beginning of the nationalist Bengal School of art which heralded the beginning of modernism in India.
		which were relegated to background by the rt academies were given due importance by Artists of Santiniketan’s Art school called the Kalabhavan.
		In post-independence India, important Artists like KG Subramanian, and Shankho Chaudhuri who were associated with Santiniketan had spread out to other parts of the country and had given new lease of life to new art schools established in
	www.21stcenturyindianart.com /santiniketan (216 words)

	Articles on Indian art scenario, handmade crafts and home planning.
		In continuation of that effort, FelexCrafts has launched selling of original and exclusive Indian art painting by budding artists (click here to view), and is now publishing write-ups and articles related to Indian art painting, and also handmade crafts (with special emphasis on terra cotta pottery) and how crafts are essential for creative home planning.
		Perspective of Indian Art and Craft - Advent of Art in Bengal
		Covered herein advent of art in Bengal and how Bengal school art came into being.
	www.felexcrafts.com /articles (269 words)

	Indian Art Gallery, indian paintings, abstract art, realistic art, surrealistic art, art gallery india, online art ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Domus Art Gallery deals primarily in Indian art and has a large collection of paintings of Indian artists from Bengal.
		The gallery stocks abstract art, realistic art and surrealistic art of junior artists, upcoming artists and eminent artists from all over India.
		Indian Art Gallery features a collection of indian paintings, abstract art, realistic art, surrealistic art, watercolour paintings, oil paintings or mix media paintings.
	www.domusartgallery.com /index.asp (206 words)

	Visual Arts - Asian Museums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
		Images of over 500 of the various works of art and decorative art, as well archeological relics in the museum's collection of Japanese; Korean; Indian; Chinese; Egyptian; South East, Central, and Western Asian art; and Western art.
		You'll find art from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Persia, and South Asia; works by artists like Cézanne, van Gogh, Renoir, There is also an extensive look at the architecture and landscape of the I. Pie designed museum.
	www.nhptv.org /kn/vs/artlab10b.htm (1960 words)

	Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
		The centerpiece of the installation is Yatra (2004), a large oil painting on masonite board recently acquired by the Asian Art Museum.
		Anjolie Ela Menon was born in West Bengal state in 1940.
		She studied at the Sir J.J. School of Art in Mumbai, Delhi University, and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
	www.asianart.org /galleryrotations.htm (326 words)

	The Hindu : Metro Plus Delhi : The circle of progress
		He is at New Delhi's Palette Art gallery where his works from the Bindu series are showing along with Sujata Bajaj, a Paris-based Indian artist, Manish Pushkale, Seema Ghuraiya and Akhilesh who is also the curator of the show.
		So if someone thought that Raza would be singing praises of Paris where he went to in 1952 on a French Government scholarship, he would be in for a surprise.
		You like his oodles of love for the country but in your heart of heart, you may not forget that he formed the Progressive Art Group with Souza, Hussain and others to allegedly oppose the traditional Bengal School of Art that was, and still remains the face of Indian art.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/mp/2006/02/16/stories/2006021600490100.htm (810 words)

	The Art of West Bengal
		In 1897, the students of Government Art School lodged a formal protest, because the art techniques and patterns are western based.
		As this is the story of Art in Calcutta, Rabindranath’s paintings must receive less than their artistic due.
		He took to painting around 1928, in his late sixties, Jamini Ray is also one of the unforgettable name in the economic art history of Calcutta.
	www.calcuttayellowpages.com /art.html (232 words)

	ARTINDIA,India painting, India craft, India dance, India music, India cinema, India tradition, India culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The gradual development of National themes to a national style was difficult and slow, but was made possible by the establishment of the Govt.
		The Bengal School(style) originated soon, and this name applies to a style rather than a regional development.
		Though traditional and mythological themes were still the subject, the handling techniques changed greatly, both in colouring and in form.
	www.webindia.com /artindia/contart.htm (167 words)

	ART HISTORY RESOURCES: Part 19 Museums & Galleries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Corcoran Museum of Art / School of Art, Washington, DC
		Traditional Art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - Art from Zaire, New Yorba, New Ireland, Indonesia, New Guinea, Navajos, and Peru
		Modern and Contemporary Art - The Museum's collection of Modern and Contemporary art is not on permanent display but it is displayed in several changing exhibits throughout the year.
	www.conmeg.com /sub/artpage/ART/ARTHLinks6.html (3514 words)

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