"Other Masters"
What’s happening about Indian Tribal and Folk Contemporary Arts ?
During the seventies, the eighties and nineties Pupul Jayakar, Baskar Kulkarni, Jyotindra Jain and Jagdish Swaminathan, among other major Indian personalities, have drawn our attention to gives us the opportunity to discover the best works of the “Other Masters” from tribal and rural knowledge on parallel of the best contemporary artists from an urban mainstream. Since 2000, we can see almost only one aspect of the Indian Contemporary Art, the most close of the common and international idea of modernity, neglecting many other art forms which are in the process of progressively disappear.
I constitute a data bank with the name of the most important and representative Indian Tribal and Folk Art public and private collections in India and abroad.
Thanks to participate in the constitution of this data bank to send me contacts, informations or news about these “Other Masters”.
Links
About “Other Masters”, curated by Jyotindra Jain, New Delhi 1998
My own collection : Contemporary Indian "Other Masters" Collection
Photos Jivya Soma Mashe, a legendary Warli artiste
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Permalink Reply by Shanthi C on -
Hi,
I have always enjoyed looking at Jivya Soma Mashe's work online. They are just wonderful.
I have been incorporating folk and tribal art into some of my art work. As a teaching artist, in my own small way, I have been including them in my classes at local art centers and schools in the Washington DC area.
Another Madhubani artist that I have enjoyed is Ganga Devi. Her work is amazing.
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Permalink Reply by herve perdriolle on -
absolutely her work is amazing. you can see also works of Shita Devi or Pushpa Kumari
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Permalink Reply by manish pushkale on -
and lets not forget jangarh singh shyam, who commited suicide in japan in 2003, tribal gaund artist from mdhya pradesh.
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Permalink Reply by herve perdriolle on
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manish pushkale said:and lets not forget jangarh singh shyam, who commited suicide in japan in 2003, tribal gaund artist from mdhya pradesh.
Have you met him ? I meet him in Bhopal in 1997 and I never forget him. Link about Jangarh Singh Shyam
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Permalink Reply by sanghmitra singh on -
Hi
absolutely agree with you in fact my specialization is traditional indian art but unfortunately with the media blitz last few years this kind of art is no where on the seen - even though i diversified to contemporary art a few years i feel sad when i see this aspect being completely neglected /
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Permalink Reply by Shanthi C on
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Hi,
Thank you posting the link to Jangarh Singh Shyam. There is something about the lines used by these masters that is just so alive.
herve perdriolle said:manish pushkale said:and lets not forget jangarh singh shyam, who commited suicide in japan in 2003, tribal gaund artist from mdhya pradesh.
Have you met him ? I meet him in Bhopal in 1997 and I never forget him. Link about Jangarh Singh Shyam
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Permalink Reply by herve perdriolle on
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It is a pleasure to see that the Indian Auction House, Osian's, is offering for the first time a sale of "Indian Modern & Contemporary Art and Craft" on November 27.
One regret, however, is the choice for the artists of ''craft".
As for modern and contemporary art, major artists from traditional communities are rare. If we want that one day these artists share the same recognition as their peers, we must consider them as equals and have the same selection criteria, the same requirements and this applies to both first and second markets. For the second market, only artists who already have a strong recognition should be proposed.
It is regrettable that the great names of Indian folk and tribal art are not included in this first event.
I think particularly, among few others, of Ganga Devi (1928-1991), whose work have been the subject of several international exhibitions and publications, Jivya Soma Mashe, born in 1934, the legendary Warli artist whose work have been shown in many countries, Jangarh Singh Shyam (1962-2001), brilliant initiator of the revival of painting of the Gond tribe, discovered and exhibited for the first time by one of the great masters of Modern Indian art, Jagdish Swaminathan.
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