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150 years of Impressionism: How Indian artists reinterpreted the art movement

’Untitled (Fishing Harbour, Navgav, near Alibag, Maharashtra)

2024 marks the 150th year of the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris. In India, rather than imitate, artists combined elements of Impressionism with their immediate reality to create a unique visual language /news/big-story/150-years-of-impressionism-how-indian-artists-reinterpreted-the-art-movement-111714032431503.html 111714032431503 story It was in 1991-92, while studying at École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, that Atul Dodiya first …

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A note on the issue: It takes a village to create art

Detail from ‘Foot Bridge’ (1951) by K.C.S Paniker, who abandoned elements of Impressionism in favour of indigenous modernism—which formed the basis of the Madras Art Movement

We examine the impact of Impressionism on Indian artists, who fused it with indigenous ideas and modernism to create a unique style /news/opinion/impressionism-indian-art-heeramandi-kinara-capital-abhinav-bindra-111714185939033.html 111714185939033 story Artists are often considered isolated iconoclasts but contrary to popular belief, they’re quite a sociable bunch. Artists V. Viswanathan and S.G. Vasudev, as well as …

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