How were colonial portraits different from traditional Indian portraits?
Unlike the Indian tradition of painting portraits in miniature, colonial portraits were life-size images that looked lifelike and real.
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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
Mural painting means
Scroll painters were commonly known as
Abanindranath Tagore and a new group of nationalist artists rejected the art of Ravi Verma because
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