Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.188

c12.188

“Theatrical conceptions, want of imagination, and lack of Indian feeling, in the treatment of sacred and epic Indian subjects, are Ravi Vurma’s fatal faults. No offence can be greater than the treatment of serious or epic subjects without dignity, and Ravi Vurma’s gods and heroes are men cast in a very common mould, who find themselves in situations for which they have not a proper capacity. Unforgivable, too, is the lack of a spontaneous expression of individual or national idiosyncrasy; for his pictures are such as any European student could paint, after perusal of the necessary literature and a superficial study of