Terracotta jar with jute base, painted and varnished National Art Treasure (non-exportable work)
Jamini Roy’s art was a celebration of life as it had been lived in symphony with nature for thousands of years, with art organically becoming an integral part of all of life’s activities. That’s true of all great civilisations of the world, including Indian, where art and craft exist together with a high degree of functionality, and are created as much for pure sensory experience as for adding colour to a humdrum object or activity. This medium-sized terracotta jar, painted in his distinctive folk-primitivist vocabulary, is an epitome of his philosophy—of how timeless art is one that is close to people’s lives and not packed away in tight security at museums and galleries with restricted access.
published references
Singh, Kishore, ed., The Art of Bengal (New Delhi: DAG, 2012), ill. p. 259
Singh, Kishore, ed., A Visual History of Indian Modern Art: Volume Ten, In the Round (New Delhi: DAG, 2015), pp. 1842-43 (ill. p. 1842)
Singh, Kishore, ed., Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art, Edition II (New Delhi: DAG, 2017), ill. p. 393
Tillotson, Giles, Primitivism and Modern Indian Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2019), ill. p. 154; Second Edition (New Delhi: DAG, 2021), pp. 124-25 (ill. p. 125)
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Terracotta jar with jute base, painted and varnished National Art Treasure (non-exportable work)
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