Bhagat notes how it is ironic that modernism in art probably reached Madras after northern India, even though the Madras School of Arts and Crafts is one of the oldest colonial art institutions in India. After its inception in 1850, the school taught carpentry, masonry and other crafts-related curriculum, till, post-independence, its first Indian principal, DP Roy Chowdhury, initiated a rigorous course in art. His student, Paniker, experimented with modernism — both as an artist and a teacher. “Paniker encouraged the ideology of nativism among his students and fellow artists, encouraging them to look away from the west. Unfortunately, not much has been written about this important period that helped shape modern Indian art,” she says. With the exhibition, she hopes, the movement gets its due recognition.
The exhibition at DAG, Mumbai, is on till October 12
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