PROGRESSIVE

ARTISTS
GROUP
TheBombay
Progressive
Artists' Group, PAG, was the
most
influential
group
ofmodern artistsinIndiafrom
its formation in 1947, they
THE MEMBERS - The
Spirit of Late 1940s
and Early
1950s
combined
Indian
subject
matter
with still PostSubjects covers
life,
Impressionistcolours,Cubistf
landscape, nudes and icons
orms
and
of
christianity,
rendered
brusque,Expressionistic
boldly
in
a
frenzied
styles.
distortion of form. Souza's
express defiance
F.paintings
N. Souza
and
impatience
with
Mainly abstracts in oil or
convention and with the
acrylic, with a very rich use of
banality of everyday life.
color, replete with icons from
indian cosmology as well as its
philosophy. Raza perceives the
Bindu as the center of creation
S. H. Raza
and
existence
progressing
paintings,
executed
towards forms Narrative
and colour
as
a
modifiedCubiststyle.
well as energy,insound,
space
Hussains art involved an
and time.
altered Cubist style, and
incorporated
primordial
avenues of Indian mythology
and culture. He frequently
M.
F. Husain
drew
inspiration from epics

Landscapesand paintings on
socio-historical themes but
best
known
for
hisstill
lifesandnudes. Ara was the
first contemporary Indian
painter to focus on the
female nude as a subject
K. H. Ara
while staying within the
His works reflectlimits
a break
ofnaturalism. Several
from the colonial
of values
his works deal with still
and
styles
that
life had
and
human
figure
conditioned art education
studies.
in colonial India. Some of
Gade works reflect the
artist's affectation by the
H. of
A. Gade
slums and poverty
the
Bombayof the 1950s. He
Artist Sadanand Bakre was
did however continue to
quite skilled in terms of
produce a prodigious and
technique,
spending
his
diverse set of landscapes
early teenage years in a
sculpting
studio
familiarizing himself with
materials and art works.
Leading a poor life gave him
S. K. Bakre
the chance to experiment
with sculptures since he
could not afford materials
which
struck
required to learn
painting
at
the time.
many creative minds
and spread in many

Spirit of the era in the

life of our culture,