Tempera on cardboard National Art Treasure (non-exportable work)
Jamini Roy’s work paid homage to the vernacular, in particular the anonymous Kalighat patuas. A former landscape artist who eventually focussed on indigenous art forms in themes, Roy’s modernist language and visual idiom continue to remain unparalleled. Untitled (Musicians and Dancers) depicts a group of Santhal tribals engaged in a musical performance. The work is an ode to pictorial symmetry, a vivid colour scheme, and the unique visual language created by Roy to counter Western hegemony in art practices in India.
published references
Datta, Sona, Urban Patua: The Art of Jamini Roy (Mumbai: MARG Publications, 2010), pp. 62-63 Borellini, Alessia; Campione, Francesco Paolo; Corni, Caterina, ed., Jamini Roy: From Tradition to Modernity, The Kumar Collection (Lugano: Museo delle Culture, Heleneum, 2015), p. 172-173
Jamini Roy
Untitled (Musicians and Dancers)
Tempera on cardboard National Art Treasure (non-exportable work)
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Untitled (Musicians and Dancers)
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