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The Changing World of Visual Arts
Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varma’s paintings as national?
We can think of Raja Ravi Varma’s paintings as national because he painted theme from Indian mythology.
He had dramatised on canvas, scene after scene from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, drawing on the theatrical performances of mythological stories that he witnessed during his tour of the Bombay Presidency.
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The style of painting which showed Indian landscape as a quaint, unexplored land is called __________.
Paintings which showed the social lives of Europeans in India are called ___________.
Paintings which depicted scenes from British imperial history and their victories are called ______________.
Point out which of the following were brought in with British art:
Why did the scroll painters and potters come to Kalighat? Why did they begin to paint new themes?
Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varma’s paintings as national?
In what way did the British history paintings in India reflect the attitudes of imperial conquerors?
Why do you think some artists wanted to develop national style of art?
Why did some artists produce cheap popular prints? What influence would such prints have had on the minds of people who looked at them?
The storming of Seringapatam was painted by
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