[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908) › c12.131 # Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.131 Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.131 - **Language:** English ### [c12.131](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.131) It is just in this different idea of realism and different outlook upon nature that we find the gulf which separates Eastern thought and Eastern art from Western. The difference, which the European and Anglicised Indian attribute to defective technical powers or undeveloped intellect, is really due to a different intellectual atmosphere and a different artistic temperament, created by the different answers which East and West give to the question—what is reality? - [Previous: c12.130](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.130) - [Next: c12.132](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.132) - [Up: c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.131](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.131) · Pramāṇa