ponderings

had quite an interesting day in college today..discussion class mainly focussed on everyones views and opinions on the visit to ngma yesterday..we had spent some 2 to 3 hrs in one of the new wings of the gallery..observations were quote interesting and diverse raising questions like what do we value, the actual work of art or the signiture?...the lack of skill in rabindranath tagore's works was noticed by more than one student...needless to say he was already a nobel lauraute when he jumped into visual arts..moreover it was the time when childart and automatism were being explored in west....his works easily gained popularity...could he have been considered as a good artist during renaissance? one of the students evidently disgusted with the display coined an interesting term 'art pollution' ...though i don't agree with his negative approach but i did find it intersting and jotted down the term in my diary. i wanted to know the views of a japanese student on what she had seen..and i would say her answer was quite politically correct. She considered the works of revivalists important and bold...she could historically contextualize the works..had definitely done her homework on indian art..