Indian Art Education and Contemporary Art Practices

Arts education is a distinct academic discipline in India, with governmental and privateinstitutions offering specialised training in the arts.Religious paradigms such as the HinduAshram and Muslim madrasas, Buddhist monastery etc., were used to build ancient Indianeducational systemsuntil the British instituted schools following their system of preparatoryschools under the Cambridge system to promote service to the British Empire. As a result,Indian perceptions of literacy and education, as well as the culture of learning, haveshiftedincluding, in the context of the arts, the concepts of differences between art and craft,the social relationship between master craftsperson and artisan, public art and individual art,religious art and secular art, and so on.Art in India, as in the rest of the world, has undergone numerous changes that have resultedin what we see today, a unique amalgamation of sensibilities from the west as well as fromacross Asia. In the twenty-first century, a new era in India begun.The country's culturaldiversity adds to the multi-dimensional approach, which is a direct approach and a directcontribution of various religious beliefs, languages, and the still prevalent rural culturecongregating with the rapidly growing urban culture.The country's diversity, like its art, is anexperience in and of itself that is difficult to comprehend.This is the core and crux of the newmodern India and its emerging art.The paper will discuss about the contemporary art practices in India with reference to itspractising artists.