What is significant about the year 1922 in the context of Indian art history?

An exhibition of Bauhaus School artists' works took place in Calcutta.

Answer:  An exhibition of Bauhaus School artists' works took place in Calcutta.
In 1922, an important exhibition featuring works by artists from the Bauhaus School in Germany, such as Paul Klee and Kandinsky, took place in Calcutta. This event had a significant impact on Indian art.

If, on one hand, pan-Asianism was gaining popularity, ideas about modern European art also travelled to India. Hence, the year 1922 may be regarded as a remarkable one, when an important exhibition of works by Paul Klee, Kandinsky and other artists, who were part of the Bauhaus School in Germany, travelled to Calcutta. These European artists had rejected academic realism, which appealed to the Swadeshi artists. They created a more abstract language of art, consisting of squares, circles, lines and colour patches. For the first time, Indian artists and the public had a direct encounter with modern art of this kind. It is in the paintings by Gaganendranath Tagore, brother of Abanindranath Tagore, that the influence of modern western style of paintings can be clearly seen. He made several paintings using Cubist style, in which building interiors were created out of geometric patterns. Besides, he was deeply interested in making caricatures, in which he often made fun of rich Bengalis blindly following the European style of living.