Nasreen Mohamedi’s Lines

Female Indian artist Nasreen Mohamedi’s (1937–1990) drawings are mystic, modernist, utopias? that contradict the daily life of India and Pakistan. An early and solitary pioneer of the modernist movement in India, her sketches are untitled, and unnumbered.

I can’t help but think how “unIndian” her art is; leading me to question if her work was imposing some order on the chaos of Delhi where she lived, or reflecting it.  Did she see some clarity in her daily experience? Does her surroundings even matter in the context of her work?  Questions for art-historians.

Some answers and a review of her recent showing in UK The MILTON KEYNES GALLERY UK in Frieze Magazine