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Vidya Iyengar ByExpress News ServiceBENGALURU : Over the last several years, Chennai-based artist Lakshmi Krishnamurthy, an alumnus of the Kalakshetra Foundation, has been focussed on creating awareness on the various Indian art forms with the single minded vision of not relegating them to museum shelves alone. In the city for the opening of her show, ‘Timeless Traditions: Enthralling Indian Art Forms’, at gallery g over the weekend, Krishnamurthy says, “Indian art may be seen as unique and different from many other parts of the world in the aspect that the technique is subject to little modification and is passed on to the following generations.” She goes on to add that “instant digital art, like instant food, seems to have taken over with non-stop introduction of newer and newer technological innovations.”Even though she feels Indian art has been pushed back to copy works post Independence, the influence of Bengal school and the works of Abanindranath Tagore, C Sivaramamurthy, Ananda Coomaraswamy and Stella Kramrisch have opened up the understanding of Indian art. “I have been aiming at understanding the fabric of Indian art and constantly evolving works, which capture the energy and vitality of the social fabric of a nation so diverse and rich in heritage,” she says. The art scene in Bangaluru, she finds, alive and pulsating, especially with the Chitrakala Parishath heralding the renaissance of traditional art forms and the Venkatappa Art Gallery exploring the archives. “The Museum of Modern Art in the Manikyavelu Mansion of yesteryear restored to its glory heralds the travel of tradition to modernity,” she says..