Kala Paridrishya
Paradigm Shift in Indian Modernism Rabindranath Tagore and Amrita Sher-Gil Johny ML 'Paradigm Shift in Indian Modernism: Rabindranath Tagore and Amrita Sher-Gil' was the topic of Ashok Bhowmick's illustrated lecture at the IIC, Delhi on 14th May. Organized by Dhoomimal Gallery, this lecture kick-started the collateral programs of the forthcoming Retrospective of Ashok Bhowmick at the Bikaner House in November 2025. Veteran artist, art critic and art history researcher, Ashok Bhowmick has been interested in the above subject for quite a long time. His primary contention is that there has been a fundamental fallacy in our analysis of the Indian modern art; we 'read' a modern work of art rather than 'see' one, because of this often we tend to create stories 'about' a work of art instead of 'seeing' it, taking its formal values into consideration. Formal values, held high by a practicing artist, are often overlooked because of the pa...