Art in Bombay, Vadodara, Delhi, Calcutta,

Art activities and movements had mostly been city-centric, for cities provide ready art-lovers, patrons and premises where large number of people can gather and view art works. The Realism Movement in Europe was concentrated mostly in the two cities of London and Paris.

Impressionism was predominantly a Paris-based movement. Cubism was associated with Barcelona, Paris and later New York. Expressionism was associated with Berlin. In the post world war era, New York became the centre of world art, which launched movements like the Abstract expressionism and later pop art and Magic realism.

Ganesh Pyne    Kolkata

Indian Artists in the last century had accepted Calcutta as the Art Capital of India. but equally important were the cities like Bombay, Vadodara and Delhi. Calcutta has seen the emergence of the first major Art group in post independence era: the Calcutta Group. Started by artists like Ramkinkar Baij, Benode Bihari Mukherjee and Abani Sen, this group mostly exhibited works with Marxist overtones.

MF Hussain   Mumbai

Another Cacutta Group is the Society of Contemporary Artists which includes Artists like Sunil Das, Bikash Bhattacharya, Shyamal Duttaroy, Suhas Roy and BR Panesar. But the most well known Art Group in India had been the Bombay based Progressive Artists’ Group. Started by FN Souza along with MF Hussain and Gaitonde, the group later disintegrated, but the Artsis like Hussain became cult figures.

Gulam Md.Sheikh        Vadodara

         Satish Gujral     Delhi

Jatin Das