The World of Jamini Roy: Selected Works
Jamini Roy’s art operates as a deliberate contradiction, both deeply rooted in tradition and quietly revolutionary in its defiance of expectations. While not a modernist in the conventional sense, his works embody a distinctly modern ethos—anchored not in the aesthetics of abstraction or experimentation but in the ethics of cultural reclamation. His rejection of Western academic realism in favour of vernacular idioms was neither a retreat into nostalgia nor a provincial turn; it was a powerful assertion of artistic autonomy...
