Volume : VI, Issue : IX, September - 2017

PASTORAL LIVES AND FEATURES DEPICTED IN THE LANDSCAPE PAINTING: BRITISH ERA

Rumki Dutta

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 India has witnessed immense creative activity in the field of architecture, painting, sculpture and other fields of art, for over two thousand years. This great heritage was gradually deteriorated with the invasion of British East India Company. It reached almost a dead end towards the end of the nineteenth century. With the fall of Mughal Empire, the art of Mughal and Rajput miniatures had become exhausted and lost their vitality. During the company rule Indian art has undergone intensive changes. Those changes were more crucial because the Indian people were not fully prepared for them. As a result, a special type of Indian painting style emerged to satisfy European patrons, those painting displays an amalgam of heavily influenced European naturalistic style and the stylization of Mughal miniature. This new genre was termed “company painting”. The impact of academic style created an entirely new atmosphere which resists expressing Indian thoughts and ideas in painting.

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RUMKI DUTTA, PASTORAL LIVES AND FEATURES DEPICTED IN THE LANDSCAPE PAINTING: BRITISH ERA, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-6 | Issue-9 | September-2017

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