THE CHANGING WORLD OF VISUAL ARTS

AJIT ,821

Class: VIII A

INTRODUCTION

• Colonial rule introduced several new art forms, styles, materials and techniques which were creatively adapted by Indian artists for local patrons and markets, both in elite and popular circles.

• The European artists bought with them new styles and new conventions of painting. They also brought the idea of realism and technique of oil painting. This enabled the artists to produce images that looked real.

PICTURESQUE

• The British artists thought that India as a quaint land , its landscape was rugged and wild.

• They produced some of the most 0evocative images picturesque landscapes of Britain’s newly conquered territories in India. These were presented in Britain to show its public about British Empire.

THE AURIAL AND DASHWOOD FAMILIES OF CALCUTTA

• The British artists showed Indians as inferior and British as superior and imperious.

• The British flaunted their clothes, stand arrogantly or regally and should that they live a life of luxury in their portraits.

• Many of the Indian Nawabs also began to commission their oil portraits by European painters.

PAINTING HISTORY

• There was a third category of imperial of art called “history painting”.

• This tradition sought to dramatise and recreate various episodes of British imperial history and enjoyed great prestige and popularity during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.