EMERGENCE OF INDIAN MODERN ART

Modern art emerged quite later in India. Though a remarkable change in Indian art practice was being marked from the period of Bengal School of Art but the modern art movement reached its peak in the 1950s and 1960safter India got independence which was very important time in Indian art field to develop art beyond the traditional and folk-art practices.It was really a challenge for Indian degree holder artists to go beyond the age old conventional and traditional notion and mindset and to think internationally. Several major artists' group soon came forward with their progressive manifesto and also gained the international recognition and Indian modern art could earn its own identity in international art world.