describe the painting words and symbols by KCS panikar
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K.C.S.Paniker (1911 - 1977) was an inspiring art educationist. Two generations of better known artists from the deep south would testify to the truth content of the statement. But that does not say much about his significant contribution to modern Indian art. Of a greater importance was his role as an institution builder. The adaptation of the medieval guild concept for building the Cholamandal artists co-operative was a visionary act, like of which we have only a few examples in modern India. However, even this visionary act cannot be regarded as significant contribution to modern Indian art per se.
Of a greater importance, to modern Indian art per se, was his adaptation some kind of post- impressionist stylistics for landscapes, that soon led to his giving a lead to the formation of the Progressive Painters’ Association of Madras in 1947-48. The formation itself was in line with the major shift in the art praxis of the forties which saw the successive establishment of the Calcutta Group in 1943, the Progressive Artists Group of Bombay in 1947 and the Delhi Shilpi Chakra of 1951.
The artists forming the groups believed that the Western Modernist axioms of art epitomised the ‘cprogress’ of art, as on the first place those freed art from being subservient to all other human concerns and had put a premium on the autonomy and other-unrelatedness of art. In the second place, the axioms supposedly had freed the individual artist not only from serving the cause of myths, institutional religion, society, polity, literature etc. etc.,
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