{"id":7386,"date":"2014-02-21T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/figurative-or-representative-art-sti\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T06:34:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T01:04:53","slug":"figurative-or-representative-art-sti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/figurative-or-representative-art-sti\/","title":{"rendered":"FIGURATIVE OR REPRESENTATIVE ART STILL LEADING THE BUZZ IN GROWING ART DEMAND IN INDIA AND ABROAD- SHEKHAR JHAMB"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Though it is very difficult to predict what the future of the art market holds. We can unhesitatingly say, however, that the generations that came of age in the 20th century disdained figurative or also known as representative art.<\/p>\n

\u201cFigurative art which has real world touch went through various phases for centuries but never died as Mark Twain once said \u201cthe reports of figurative art\u2019s death are greatly exaggerated.\u201d Figurative painting \u2013 \u201cAny form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world.\u201d \u2013 is being rehabilitated by a growing coterie of painters and is likely to dominate the coming year 2014-15. It will never loose its luster.\u201dsaid Mr Shekhar Jhamb , Director, Creative Art Gallery, Which won the best seller award at recently concluded Art fair in Delhi.<\/p>\n

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\n\u201c Revived, as if by some act of necromancy, the new figurative painting is neither stuffily conservative nor incompatible with abstraction.Though, it\u2019s not constraint every work sells. It\u2019s only the confidence of the artist which promotes the artwork. I prefer colourful contemporary works because I feel 90% of my client incline towards that.\u201dMr Jhamb said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Indian art scene has always been favourable for figurative art works, because if you trace from the roots of history you will find that all our old paintings are in figurative. They not only serve a message but also they leave a kind of theme which I believe Indian buyers and collectors prefer. Abstract is borrowed concept, I mean it genuinely started in the west and it\u2019s the popular concept for them only. But these days lot of corporates do like to mount something in abstract for their offices.\u201d He added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Indian art market was at its peak during 2005 and 2006 but after that a noticed change was seen, people took less interest in buying contemporary art works but starting from 2013 I have noticed a rise in contemporary art and 2014 it started with good grace. Again the economy is a big concern in dealing the artworks, a countries economy is majorly responsible for describing its luxury needs and art is indeed a luxury.\u201d Mr Jhamb said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t go that judgemental but if I will need to draw a line that I will definitely say that works based on popular culture are quite liked by our enthusiast buyers. These days\u2019 bright colours are in at every sector and similarly in paintings as well, they prefer something like that.\u201d He said.<\/p>\n

Creativity Art Gallery is carrying artworks over 200 artists and to me everyone is exclusive. But still to name some I can easily say that some of the good works of Anwar Khan, VirenTanwar are lying in my best collections. Also I am one of the biggest collectors of Farhad Hussain, JagdishChinthala, Chandra Bhattachrya and Tejinder Kanda\u2019s works.<\/p>\n

Yes it obviously does. Art and culture is always the output of the society\u2019s philosophy. It duly reflects a country\u2019s vision and psychological state.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though it is very difficult to predict what the future of the art market holds. We can unhesitatingly say, however, that the generations that came of age in the 20th century disdained figurative or also known as representative art. \u201cFigurative art which has real world touch went through various phases for centuries but never died as Mark Twain once said \u201cthe reports of figurative art\u2019s death are greatly exaggerated.\u201d Figurative painting \u2013 \u201cAny form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world.\u201d \u2013 is being rehabilitated by a growing coterie of painters and is likely to dominate <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,1],"tags":[1879],"class_list":["post-7386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","category-update","tag-update","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59915,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions\/59915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}