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WALSH GALLERY
118 N Peoria Chicago, IL 60607 tel: (312) 829-3312; fax: (312) 829-3316 email: info@walshgallery.com internet: www.walshgallery.com •The only gallery that specializes in contemporary Asian art with an emphasis on Chinese painters. | ||||
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•Contemporary Indian Painting: Works by Gulammohammed Sheikh & Bhupen Khakhar
April 12 - May 18, 2002 | ||||
| Renowned for their narrative paintings, Gulammohammed Sheikh and Bhupen Khakhar depict contemporary life in India and address such timely and provocative issues as sectarian riots and homosexuality. Mr. Sheikh and Mr. Khakhar and their contemporaries at the Baroda School offered a challenge and an alternative to Bengal School artists, who sought to modernize Indian painting by reinventing traditional Indian styles of painting in ways that were compatible with ideas of "Asian Art." Members of the Baroda School felt that all that was required to produce Indian art was to be Indian, and to record what was happening around them. This led Mr. Sheikh and Mr. Khakhar to frank and unromantic depictions of urban life, and eventually to Mr. Khakhar's occasionally explicit images of homosexual life in India. Mr. Khakhar and Mr. Sheikh incorporate widely diverse influences into their work, including Indian miniatures, Mughal painting, popular and court paintings, cheap devotional images and paintings from the Italian Renaissance. | ||||
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