Art Education in the Age of Digital Reproduction

H.A. Anil Kumar

The main question with majority of Indian art education, today, excepting the genuinely renowned ones is whether to accept it as an irreversibly failed institution or a construct which still has hopes of resurrection. Most outside would prefer the former; and most inside would hang on to the latter.

When a final year art student of College of Fine Art from Chitrakala Parishath was commissioned to create an artwork for Kochi Biennale (2015) in the form of a visualjournal, she could not easily digest the fact that ‘she’ had been selected for the Kochi Biennale student’s section which was presumably based on her portfolio and the impression it left upon the student-curator, who in turn, happened to be an alumni of the same institution.