Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.66

c10.66

European artists who have neither the time nor the inclination to study Eastern art commonly assert that the oriental can neither draw nor model the human figure correctly. The criticism is as superficial as it is unjust. The Eastern artist, like the Western, draws what he wants to draw and models what he wants to model, and the failure of the European to appreciate oriental draughtsmanship comes either from his inability, or from his unwillingness, to understand the intention of it.