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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