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.
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
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- 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
- 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
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- 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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