Obselete courses and outdated teaching practices ensure that art education in India remains drab and totally out of sync with the contemporary art scenario. To energise art education, the system has to be revamped. Fine art colleges are a gift of colonial rule to India. Today most of them are missed possibilities. Ability for art cannot be easily acquired or controlled under rigid UGC norms. In the course of making art, one is expected to break more lines rather than draw them right. Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules, says Mary Oliver, a poet. Right from the curriculum, materials, infrastructure, to the faculty-student relationship — nothing is conducive to the growth of a liberal mind in our art institutions. For, breaking the lines involves conceptual, out-of-the box thinking which is not permitted in majority of Indias finest art institutions. MP Singh, Professor in sculpture, Banaras Hindu University, while attending a symposium on sculpture in Chandigarh observed, A few students from Government College of Art, came to see me. They were afraid if their teachers came to know of their visit, they would be reprimanded.
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