Of Mood & Expression

More than anything else Modernism is the artist's attitude towards artistic means and issues, towards subject matter, expression, and content, towards colour, drawing and the problem of the nature and purpose of art. It is not, as it is frequently perceived, necessarily a matter of gloom, grimness and dark distortion. By this parlance any artist who paints pictures depicting reality after his own fashion, cannot be summarily dismissed from the ambit of modernism. It was in those halcyon days of waiting for admission into engineering college that Maniklal…