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The Indian National Congress wished to speak for the entire people belonging to different communities of India.
The dissatisfaction against British rule was intensified in the 1870s and 1880s. 1. The Arms Act was passed in 1878, which disallowed Indians from h...
Kalighat painting originated in the 19th century Bengal, in the vicinity of Kalighat temple of Kolkata. The paintings developed as a distinct school o...
During the 18th and 19th centuries, the British employed Indian artists to illustrate the manners and customs of India and to record scenes of monumen...
The celebration of British military triumph can be seen in the paintings of the battle of Seringapatam by Robert Ker Porter. This work depicts “the de...
Miniature paintings are executed on a very small scale on perishable material such as paper and cloth. The Palas of Bengal were the pioneers of miniat...
Thomas Daniell began his career as a landscape painter. In 1784 he came to India with his nephew William. They both remained in India for seven years....
The paintings done by European Artists were realistic. They painted pictures that were exactly the same in reality. The paintings looked real and life...
‘The Imperial Art’ that was prevalent in India during the British Colonial rule can be classified into three categories, namely Landscape painting, Po...
Raja Ravi Varma painted scenes from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. During the 1880s, Ravi Varma’s mythological paintings became the rage among Indi...
1. In Bengal, a new group of nationalist artists gathered around Abanindranath Tagore (1871-1951), rejected the art of Ravi Varma as imitative and wes...
The British history paintings sought to dramatise and recreate various episodes of British imperial history These paintings celebrated the British pow...
Raja Ravi Varma mastered the Western art of oil painting and realistic life study, but painted themes from Indian mythology. He dramatised on canvas, ...
1. In Bengal, in the vicinity of pilgrimage center of the temple of Kalighat, local village scroll painters (called patuas) and potters (called kumors...
In the painting ‘The Aurial and Dashwood Families of Calcutta’, painted by Johann Zoffany, you see Thomas Dashwood and Charlotte Lousia Aurial enterta...
The following were brought in with British art: (a) Oil painting (c) Life-size portrait painting (d) Use of perspective
The art form which observed carefully and tried to capture exactly what the eye saw is called the idea of realism. The style of painting which showed...
The whole scenario changed as women became actively involved in reforms. They wrote books and started schools. They started training centres, and set ...
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was a Bengali scholar and a pillar of the Bengal Renaissance. He was an academic, philosopher, educator, printer, entreprene...
Raja Rammohun Roy was a social reformer. He started the Brahmo Samaj in Calcutta. Rammohun Roy strongly felt that unjust practices against women had...