FORMATION

OF INDIAN
NATIONAL
CONGRESS

1857

PARTITION
OF
BENGAL
REVOKED

SWADESHI
MOVEMENT
1905-1908

THE
REVOLT
OF
1857

KHILAFAT
MOVEMENT
IS
LAUNCHED

PARTITIO
N OF
BENGAL

1885

1901

1904

1905

1908

SHANTINIKET
AN IS
FOUNDED
TAGORE
FAMILY
LORD CURZON
BESTOWS THE
KAISE-I-HIND
GOLD ON RAJA
RAVI VERMA
(HIS OIL ON
CANVAS
EVOKED
ACADEMIC
STYLE OF
EUROPEAN
MASTERS.THIS
WAS
FAVOURED BY

NONCOOPERATION
MOVEMENT

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

1911

1919

QUIT INDIA
MOVEMENT

1920

1925

1929

1930

1934

1940

1941

1942

1943

INDIA
ATTAINS
INDEPENDAN
CE

1947

194
8

GENERA
L
ELECTIO
NS

1949

1952

INDO PAK WAR OVER

EAST
PAKISTAN.BANGLADE
SH IS FORMED

SECOND
INO-PAK
WAR

1954

1956

1958

1960

AMRITA
AMRITA
DEVELOPMENT OF
KALA BHAVAN (ART
THE LALIT KALA
SHERGILL
SHERGIL DIES
FIRST
THEMES RELATED
HOUSE)
ACADEMY IS
JOINS
AT 29
EXHIBITIO
TO ESOTERIC
OUTSIDE CALCUTTA THE
FOUNDED AND
ECOLE
N
ART.FOLLOWING
KALA
OBSCENITY
DER
BY PAG
THE
BHAVAN AT
CASE IS FILED
FORMATION
OF
THE
BEAUX
REDISCOVERY OF
SHANTINIKETAN
AGAINST
CALCUTTA
GROUP
FORMED
ARTS
TANTRIC ART IN
PRESENTED AN
AKBAR
BY PARITOSH SEN AND ZEMUL
1960S ARTISTS
NANDALAL
ALTERNATE
PADAMSEE.
A BEDIN DEVELOPED A STYLE
STARTED
BOSE
METHOD OF TRAINING
NGMA NEW
REPRESENTED BY BENGALI
PRACTICING NEO
CREATES HIS
IN
DELHI IS
PICTORAL TRADITIONS
TANTRIC ARTICONIC IMAGE
WHICH STUDIO
FOUND
SHOWING THE
OF DANDI
PRACTICE WAS
FOUNDING OF THE PROGRESSIVE
FOUNDING
OF
UNION OF MALES
MARCH
REJECTED IN FAVOUR
ARTISTS
MAHARAJA
AND
OF OBSERVATIONAL
COMPRISED OF 6 RADICAL ARTISTS
SAYAJIRAO
AMRITA SHERGIL
FEMALES.ARTISTS
LEARNING,INCORPORATI
WORKING
UNIVERSITY
.K
G
LIKE K G
NG THE
BEAUTY
OF MUKHERJEE JOINS RETURNS TO INDIA
BENO
DE BEHARI
TO ESTABLISH NEW CULTURAL
SUBRAMANYAM
SUBRAMANYAM
NATURAL
KALA BHAVAN AND TRAINS UNDER
IDENTITIES AND
AND
BECAME
SURROUNDINGS
INTO
RABINDRANATH
TAGORE AND
MODERNIST CULTURE.THEY WERE
GULAMMOHAMMA
FIRST EXHIBITION
INCREASINGLY
ARTNANDALAL
EDUCATIONBOSE
OPPOSED TO
D
BY BARODA
GROUP
INTERESTED
IN
THE COLONIAL ACADEMIC STANDARD
SHEIKH TAUGHT
LOCAL
IMPOSED

1962

1965

RAJIV
GANDHI
BECOMES
THE P.M

1968

1969

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

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

1971

1972

LIBERIZATION
OF THE
ECONOMY

1977

FIRST ALL INDIA

ARTISTS
WORKSHOP AT
KASAULI BY
VIVAN
SUNDARAM
(MARXISM
AND
AESTHETICS)

VISION EXCHANGE
WORKSHOP FOUNDED
BY
PADAMSEE.VRISHCHIK
,A JOURNAL OF ART
AND IDEA
COMMENCES
PUBLICATION FROM
BARODA,EDITED BY
BHUPEN KHAKKAR

1978

1980

1982

1984

1985

1986

1987

1991

2014

FESTIVAL OF
INDIAHELD IN
PLACE FOR THE PEOPLE
THE U.S.A
THROUGH THE
EXHIBITION HELD IN
LOOKING
BOMBAY
GLASS EXHIBITION
AND DELHI.THE 6
ACROSS
ARTISTS WHO
INDIA HIGHLIGHTED
PARTICIPATED IN THE
THE WORK OF
PLACE FOR PEOPLE
PROMINENT FEMALE
EXHIBITION REJECTED
ARTISTS
MODERNISTS
NALINI MALANI,ARPITA
EXISTENTIALISM AND
SINGH AND NIHIMA
FOREIGN FUNDING CAME IN
THE REPRESENTATION OF
SHEIKH
AND INITIATED FOREIGN
METAPHYSICAL
INDIA MYTH AND REALITY, CURATORSHIP.THIS DICTATED
MAN IN FAVOUR OF
ASPECTS OF MODERN INDIAN
THE ARTISTS INTO PRODUCING
NARRATIVES
ART EXHIBITION HELD AT THE
POLITICAL ART.THIS ALSO MAD
CENTERED ON POLITICS
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, THE ARTISTS PRODUCE ART
AND
OXFORD.IT HIGHLIGHTED THE
FOR AN INTERNATIONAL
THE EVERYDAY.THIS
ARTISTIC DIALOGUE BETWEEN
AUDIENCE WHICH HAD AN
EXHIBITION BROUGHT
INDIA AND THE WEST.
INTERNATIONAL STYLE WITH
INTO FOCUS THE
LOCAL NARRATIVES
IMPORTANCE OF