The Art by Dr Ved Prakash Bhardwaj - HTML preview

The Art

Arpita Singh

Among the women artists of contemporary

India who have not only established a distinct

identity for themselves but have also given a

new direction to Indian art, Arpita Singh occupies a leading position. Amrita Sher-Gil was the first modern woman artist of India who created paintings rooted in Indian sensibility while employing the idiom of Western art. Her contribution cannot be denied. However, from the point of view of artistic achievement, Arpita Singh deserves credit for experimenting with her art and addressing subjects that, for a long time, generally remained outside the sphere of women artists. Although Arpita Singh does not accept any division between male and female artists, there is no doubt that, precisely because she was a woman, her early works reflected a critical perspective on the condition of women and girls in society. This critical perspective is what made her a major artist of her time, and as a result, artists of the generation that followed her increasingly developed 20