• Sheikh Gul Mohammad

Abstract: Printmaking is an artistic process based on the principle of transferring images from a matrix onto another surface, most often paper or fabric through traditional techniques: etching, engraving, lithography, etc. This paper reflects upon how today’s modern contemporary artists keeping in touch with traditional style while developing a new style with modern context have expanded to available techniques including serigraphy, collagraphy, mixed media, stencil printing, etc. In the 21st century, contemporary artworks had broken the isolated barriers to its conventional approach in gallery space. Printmaking has developed a wide range of experiments stretching beyond the boundary of paper prints and has become popular in India through open-air space installation: an interactive approach toward the viewers through new methods of placements and aesthetical installation, public space installation for better public interaction and viewer’s opinion for certain social experiments to modern context offering art for everyone rather than isolated space. Contemporary artwork has not only focused on the techniques and context of art but also on how to make art available to the common people through the reproduction of master copies and the replication of great artists. The contemporary period had shown printmaking concerns turning to be solved. Alternative solutions for printmaking are popping up and art is getting mobilized. There is a slight shift in the attitude of art where non-conventional approaches such as serigraphy, mixed media, and stencil printing are the methods and techniques that are becoming the solution. A variety of printmaking techniques are evolving in the field of printmaking that can be taken into consideration. New aspects of concepts are getting originated, experiments are also getting popular in this field. Artists are heading forward with the methods and the materials, developing and giving birth to new aesthetical art language which will lead with new possibilities in the future. Contemporary Indian Artists of the 21st century included in this paper are Ananda Moy Banerji, and Dr. Paula Sengupta who have been working with innovative methods, modern concerns and approaches, new expressive ways to interact with viewers and approaches to overcome hurdles of old style and traditional techniques.

Keywords: Experimental printmaking, Aesthetic evolution in art, Modern context in art, Contemporary Indian artists, Innovative Printmaking Approaches.

"An Analysis of Non-Conventional Approach to Printmaking Techniques Practiced by Indian Artists of the 21st Century", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 8, page no.e600-e606, August-2025, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2508480.pdf

"An Analysis of Non-Conventional Approach to Printmaking Techniques Practiced by Indian Artists of the 21st Century", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 8, page no. ppe600-e606, August-2025, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2508480.pdf