Modern Art in India: A Point of View
by Nissim Ezekiel First published in The Times of India, March 23, 1969.
Some years ago, I reviewed art exhibitions for The Times of India in Bombay. I made it a point to see all exhibitions, though I wrote critiques of only five or six of them every month. This principle enabled me to leave out the sub-standard. I
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There are, or should be, two sets of inter-related experiences in the career of an artist. One is of life and the other of art. Certain tendencies
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by Nissim Ezekiel Modern Indian art since the late forties is notable for quantity, variety and confidence. A representative selection from it may be exhibited in the cultural capitals of the world and trusted to arouse interest in even the most knowledgeable and critical of its viewers. There is enough that is definitively
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by Nissim Ezekiel M.F. Husain is the most talked about painter of India. After the much-published triptych depicting events leading to the proclamation of Emergency (June 26, 1975), Husain has returned to the acquarel (water-colour) which he had not used over the last twenty years.
A special feature on the artist’s
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