Progressive Artists' Group
プログレッシヴ・アーティスツ・グループ / 1947–1956 / Style / Modern and Contemporary Art Movements
A post-independence Bombay group that rejected both colonial academism and nationalist revival, individually recombining Cubism, Expressionism, Indian cities, and religious imagery through strong color fields and distorted figuration.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Divided and simplified figures, villages, and cities
- High contrast among red, orange, blue, and black
- Folk or sacred imagery beside European modernist devices
- Heavy contour, flat field, and rough surface together
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- Showing how several modernisms collide with regional subjects rather than forming one smooth style
- Representing post-independence urban and religious plurality without reducing it to a national motif
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Name the work and artist instead of unifying the group with pan-Indian display type.
- Composition
- Divide the figure or city into flat fields and retain tension through strong contours.
- Material
- Layer opaque red, ochre, blue, and black on rough canvas, preserving drawing and abrasion.
- Caution
- Do not freeze the group into one look. State differences among artists, Bombay's place, and the politics after independence.
- Further study
- F. N. Souza, M. F. Husain and S. H. Raza / Bombay after independence / modernism, secularism and plural Indian identities
Related entries
- Post-Impressionism (ポスト印象主義)Shared effects: Exhilaration / Intimacy.Compare Progressive Artists' Group and Post-Impressionism
- Expressionism (表現主義)Shared effects: Rebellion / Exhilaration / Intimacy.Compare Progressive Artists' Group and Expressionism
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