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Contemporary Sculpture in India

Sculptures these days shows the changing attitude of the world and the culture rather than the past it shows the future and the present. The years 1940’s and 1950’s, was the time when Indian sculpture developed into a modern, unique autochthonous language in itself; which was seen in the works of Ram Kinker Baij who is among the famous Indian sculpture artist names . His art gave a modern outlook to the western and traditional Indian norms by simply combining them in one. He also experimented with bizarre materials such as concrete, gravel as well as cement, which gave his art a rural and tribal outlook. During the year 1950 sculptors experimented with wood and stone, by preserving the original character of a solid block. But in the following two decades saw various kinds of sculpting techniques which created a reformed relationship among material, form and theme. While talking about sculptures in India we cannot miss out the contemporary Indian artist Neeraj Gupta’s name and h