A tendency in early Modernist painting in India, marked by the presence of both narrative and figuration and deviating from the conventions of European Modernism, which focused on non-representational subject matter. It is particularly associated with the Baroda School of Art, notably artists such as Gulammohammed Sheikh, Bhupen Khakhar and Sudhir Patwardhan.
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