The intangible cultural heritage (ICH) of India reflects the enormous talent of Indian artists through manifestation of various creative and cultural activities.
India is perhaps the largest reservoir of ancient writings, traditional arts, paintings, sculptures, various forms of dances and music besides diverse rights and rituals.
When it comes to artwork from India, Indian artists areat par with other international artists as obvious from the maturity exhibited by them through mesmerizing Indian paintings.
Artwork from India is not just restricted to paintings on canvas alone and can be seen in various modern and traditional forms which include pottery, glass works, textile arts as well as visual arts.
Indian paintings and Artists
Indian paintings have of late undergone many changes in their forms and styles. Although, Indian paintings style used to be in the form of wall painting or mural painting but with passage of time and modernization and urbanization, the painting forms changed to paper, canvas, glass and cloth.
Despite changes in painting forms, Indian artists still create marvels of paintings based on daily village life, birds and animals. In addition, most of painting artwork from India also revolves around natural objects like sun, moon, plants and trees as well as Indian motifs and storytelling.
Artwork from India is appreciated globally due to the presence of original and natural aspects and that-is-why a large number of Indian paintings for sale exist in markets and international exhibition.
The Indian paintings describing honesty and truthfulness in them are created by some of the most eminent and internationally renowned and applauded Indian artists.
Renowned Indian artists
The Indian artists who are considered doyens of Indian painting and artwork and have received global recognition include:
- M F Hussain – a name synonymous with modern Indian art due to his transparent depiction of his imagination. Most of his paintings were exhibited in the most famous international art galleries of Prague and Zurich. His unmatched contribution towards arts earned him international recognition.
- Francis Newton Souza –is the one who gave a new shape and dimensions and brought transformation of the Indian art landscape and was rightly referred as the ‘Indian Picasso’. He often depicted the distorted human figure to express his emotions as well as faceless bodies and violent scenes of Christ’s crucifixion etc.
- S.H.Raza—one of the founding members of the Progressive Artist’s Group is known for his paintings with themes from his childhood memories. His rigid and geometric reminiscent paintings of French landscapes were internationally appreciated.
- Vasudeo S Gaitonde – his large sized canvas paintings using mellow and subdued colors to reflect the spiritual quality were the hall mark features of his art. Among Indian paintings for sale, his paintings are most valued and considered most expensive.
- Tyeb Mehta– switched from film editing to arts and paintings, he created impressive paintings. His depiction of spirituality through Gods and Goddesses were based on Hindu Mythology.
In addition to these renowned Indian artists, Indian arts earned internal recognition due to most impressive artwork of Abanindranath Tagore, Amrita Sher-Gill, Jamini Roy, Jatin Dass, Raja Ravi Varma and Satish Gujral besides many others.
