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Art and Crafts has always been an integral part of India. Its not from today or yesteryear or ten years ago. India has been living in Arts within every Phaseof its growth; It was visible since the oldest civilization ever found. The Oldest culture of the Bronze Age civilization is The Harrapan culture or the Indus Valley civilization, which flourished in about 2500 B.C. and was spread over a vast area in India and Pakistan. Indus Valley civilization was not only among the oldest culture, also it was one civilization which was equally developed in the fields of Arts, crafts, infrastructure, lifestyle, knowledge, Trade and commerce in that era.
The artistic touch was present in the entire city. Indus Valley civilization was impeccable in their sense of town planning. The roads were straight and houses were along the side of the roads. This ancient city was very systematic in their drainage system, the Great Bath at Mohenjodaro and houses having own water supply is still a remarkable example in Artistic Architecture. The people from this culture used wheel in the crafts of pottery, which was a sign of advanced culture. Harappan Potters created a variety of model toys, carts with wheels, animals, birds, statues etc. The Archeological findings from the city concluded that Harappan culture was impressive in their work of Arts and Crafts. The Archeological Heritage discovered from various sites of the Indus Valley Civilization in India and Pakistan Included Paintings, Statues, coins, inscriptions, etc. The famous bronze figure of a dancing girl, an early form of God Shiva and other Goddess structure and statues were found too. They even wore different types of ornaments and jewelry, which were designed skillfully. These reveal the Artistic achievements of the Harappan civilization. The mass from the culture lead a luxurious lifestyle. They were artistic and knowledgeable and have been the backbone of Art and Architecture in India.
This Unique Artistic evidence from our history still gets reflected in our Contemporary Indian Arts and Paintings and other Crafts. Today, it can be found that the Contemporary Indian Art has gradually derived from the past. However, the present time Artists have developed their own sense of style in Contemporary Indian Arts and Paintings which are noteworthy.
Contemporary Arts and Paintings are not limited in its category. We have a big section for the New Indian Artists providing us with the Modern Art in this field. Various other artists in India gets involved in creating Landscape Paintings,Nude Art and Paintings, Fine Arts and many other in Oil and Canvas Paintings. Often one single artist gets involved with variety of work. Still fewer from the bunch specialize in a particular type.
Indian noteworthy artists who left a remarkable affect to the world includes Rabindranath Tagore, Raja Ravi Verma, Abanindranarth Tagore, Jamini Roy, MF Hussain, S.H. Raza, JogenChodhury, F.N. Souza, AlokBal, Subodh Gupta, AtulDodiya, Amrita Shergill and SudhanshuSutar.
India is considered to have started with Contemporary Art and Paintings from the year 1990. The famous artists from India are SubodhGupta,NarayananRamachandran, VivanSundaram, JitishKallat, Jagannath Panda, Atul and AnjuDodiya, T.V.Santosh, ShreyaChaturvedi, BhartiKher and Thukral and Tagra.
Many of the Indian Modern Artists like RanbirKaleka and Narayanan Ramachandran have shown their excellence in Indian Arts and Paintings due to their exceptional sense and style in their work.
