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THE REVOLT

OF1857

FORMATION OF INDIANNATIONAL CONGRESS

PARTITION OF

BENGAL

SWADESHI MOVEMENT 1905-1908

PARTITION OF BENGAL REVOKED

KHILAFAT MOVEMENT IS

LAUNCHED

NON-COOPERATION MOVEMENT

QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT

INDIA ATTAINS INDEPENDANCE

GENERAL ELECTION

S

SECOND INO-PAK

WAR

INDO PAK WAR OVER EAST

PAKISTAN.BANGLADESH IS FORMED

RAJIV GANDHI

BECOMES THE P.M

LIBERIZATION OF THE ECONOMY

SHANTINIKETAN IS FOUNDED TAGORE FAMILY

LORD CURZON BESTOWS THEKAISE-I-HIND GOLD ON RAJA RAVI VERMA (HIS OIL ON CANVAS EVOKED ACADEMIC STYLE OF EUROPEAN MASTERS.THIS WASFAVOURED BY THE BRITISH)

ABANINDRANATH TAGORE FORMED THE BENGALSCHOOL (THE BENGAL SCHOOL ARTISTS BELIEVEDTHEY COULD STEER INDIAN MODERN ART AWAY FROM EUROPEAN INFLUENCES AND DEVELOP A MORE UNIQUE INDIAN CHARACTER FROM ANCIENT CAVE PAINTINGS

KALA BHAVAN (ART HOUSE)OUTSIDE CALCUTTA THE KALABHAVAN AT SHANTINIKETANPRESENTED AN ALTERNATEMETHOD OF TRAINING IN WHICH STUDIO PRACTICE WAS REJECTED IN FAVOUROF OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING,INCORPORATING THE BEAUTY OF NATURAL SURROUNDINGS INTOART EDUCATION

BENO DE BEHARI MUKHERJEE JOINSKALA BHAVAN AND TRAINS UNDER RABINDRANATH TAGORE AND NANDALAL BOSE

AMRITA SHERGILL JOINSECOLE DER BEAUX ARTS

NANDALAL BOSE CREATES HIS ICONIC IMAGE OF DANDI MARCH

AMRITA SHERGIL RETURNS TO INDIA

AMRITA SHERGIL DIESAT 29

FORMATION OF THE CALCUTTA GROUP FORMED BY PARITOSH SEN AND ZEMUL A BEDIN DEVELOPED A STYLE REPRESENTED BY BENGALI PICTORAL TRADITIONS

FOUNDING OF THE PROGRESSIVE ARTISTSCOMPRISED OF 6 RADICAL ARTISTS WORKINGTO ESTABLISH NEW CULTURAL IDENTITIES ANDMODERNIST CULTURE.THEY WERE OPPOSED TOTHE COLONIAL ACADEMIC STANDARD IMPOSEDUPON INDIAN ART ACADEMIES AS WELL AS THE REVIVALIST ART MOVEMENT ESTABLISHED BY THE BENGAL SCHOOL

FIRST EXHIBITIONBY PAG

FOUNDING OF MAHARAJA SAYAJIRAOUNIVERSITY .K G SUBRAMANYAM AND GULAMMOHAMMADSHEIKH TAUGHT THERE

THE LALIT KALA ACADEMY IS FOUNDED AND OBSCENITY CASE IS FILED AGAINSTAKBAR PADAMSEE.NGMA NEW DELHI IS FOUND

FIRST EXHIBITIONBY BARODA GROUP

DEVELOPMENT OF THEMES RELATED TO ESOTERIC ART.FOLLOWING THE REDISCOVERY OF TANTRIC ART IN 1960S ARTISTS STARTED PRACTICING NEO TANTRIC ART-SHOWING THE UNION OF MALES AND FEMALES.ARTISTS LIKE K G SUBRAMANYAM BECAME INCREASINGLY INTERESTED IN LOCAL STYLE,CUBISM AND EXPRESSIONISM

FOUNDING OF THE GROUP 1890.GROUP 1890 WAS A SHORT LIVED GROUP COMPRISING 12ARTISTS IN BARODA.LED BY JERAM PATEL EMPHASIZED ON THEPRESENCE OF HUMAN

FIRST TRIENNALE INDIA IS HELD AT THE LALIT KALA ACDEMY, NEW DELHI

VISION EXCHANGE WORKSHOP FOUNDED BYPADAMSEE.VRISHCHIK,A JOURNAL OF ART AND IDEACOMMENCES PUBLICATION FROM BARODA,EDITED BYBHUPEN KHAKKAR AND GULAM MOHAMMAD SHEIKH

FIRST ALL INDIA ARTISTS WORKSHOP AT KASAULI BY VIVAN SUNDARAM (MARXISMAND AESTHETICS)

PLACE FOR THE PEOPLE EXHIBITION HELD IN BOMBAYAND DELHI.THE 6 ARTISTS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE‘PLACE FOR PEOPLE’ EXHIBITION REJECTED MODERNISTS EXISTENTIALISM AND THE REPRESENTATION OF METAPHYSICAL MAN IN FAVOUR OF NARRATIVES CENTERED ON POLITICS ANDTHE EVERYDAY.THIS EXHIBITION BROUGHT INTO FOCUS THEIMPORTANCE OF DRAWING AS MUCH FROM THE VERNACULAR FORM AS FROM THE WEST

INDIA MYTH AND REALITY,ASPECTS OF MODERN INDIANART EXHIBITION HELD AT THEMUSEUM OF MODERN ART,OXFORD.IT HIGHLIGHTED THE ARTISTIC DIALOGUE BETWEENINDIA AND THE WEST.

‘FESTIVAL OF INDIA’HELD IN THE U.S.A ‘THROUGH THE LOOKING

GLASS EXHIBITION ‘ ACROSSINDIA HIGHLIGHTED THE WORK OF PROMINENT FEMALE ARTISTSNALINI MALANI,ARPITA SINGH AND NIHIMA SHEIKH

FOREIGN FUNDING CAME INAND INITIATED FOREIGNCURATORSHIP.THIS DICTATED THE ARTISTS INTO PRODUCINGPOLITICAL ART.THIS ALSO MADETHE ARTISTS PRODUCE ARTFOR AN INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE WHICH HAD AN INTERNATIONAL STYLE WITH LOCAL NARRATIVES