Samikshavad
Description
Samikshavad is the first indigenous art movement in modern India, which started in North India in 1974. It has a different identity from the western movements of art. It attempts to be neither affected nor inspired by western art. Read more ↗
Key Artists
Ram Chandra Shukla
Professor at Banaras Hindu University who founded and inspired the indigenous Samikshavad movement in 1974 to reject Western influence and expose Indian socio-political corruption.
Raghuvir Sen Dhir (R.S. Dhir)
Prominent BHU painter featured in the historic 1979 AIFACS Delhi manifesto exhibition whose satirical compositions challenged societal decay.
Santosh Kumar Singh
Key original BHU painter whose oil canvases exhibited at the 1979 AIFACS debut critiqued political bias and class inequality.
Ved Prakash Mishra
Core BHU painter of the 1979 AIFACS exhibition deploying satirical and symbolic motifs rooted in North Indian social reality.
Gopal Madhukar Chaturvedi
Leading Aligarh painter and scholar whose writings and paintings helped expand Samikshavad across university art departments nationwide.
Famous Artworks
Fun Facts
Samikshavad derives its name from the Sanskrit word 'Samiksha,' meaning the rigorous philosophical criticism of life and society, purposely rejecting Western modernism's inward psychological abstraction.
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The historic 1979 AIFACS Gallery exhibition in New Delhi that published the first formal Samikshavad manifesto was personally inaugurated by prominent 'Young Turk' politician and future Prime Minister of India, Chandra Shekhar.
↗ Source: en.wikipedia.org