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About The Book
Arpana Kaur is an artist gifted with emotional intelligence and profound sensitivity. Today in Indian modern art she is one of the most sought after artists. She is a painter of Indian mind body and soul with her own style solely born out of Indian artistic soil.
Picasso could not influence her though still today Indian modern art is by and large influenced by his artistic intelligence. Arpana sought her own way her own language of art. She is a self-taught artist one of the reasons behind her Indianness. After Independence Indian art schools by and large imported western art spirit and technique dismantling what was their own and taught the students the so called modern art which was as many philosophers said "was not a positive slogan for modernists could not really understand where modernity lies. Adorno in Situations wrote "Modern art is different from all previous art in that its modes of negation are different Previously styles and artistic practices were negated by new style and practices. Today however modernism negates tradition itself
Though Arpana in her artistic journey understood the spirit of modernity she never negated tradition. Rather she started using elements from traditional arts to enrich her art. She is the one among few Indian artists who have recognized traditional art as a source of wisdom.
About The Author
Rajesh Kumar Shukla is the author of three books Kala Ka Swaran Muhurat Concerning The Spiritual In Art and Ishavasyopnishad . Deeply interest in art philoshphy and culture he has extensively written on art and culture. He was columnist in Rashtriya Sahara Hindi news paper and edited some issues of art magazine Ka . He has been awarded with Lalit Kala Akademy scholership for art criticism currently running his own website www.artdarshan.com to promote art and culture.
Publisher Winsome Books India
Publication date 2006
ISBN 10 : 818804346X
ISBN 13 : 9788188043460
Binding : Hardcover
Language English