Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.192

c12.192

So, while these societies have become the arbiters of public taste, and while Anglo-Indians have prided themselves on their liberal patronage of the fine arts, an art much greater than theirs, of which they take no cognisance, has been dying for want of sustenance outside their very doors. And if an Indian artist should attract the attention of a benevolent Anglo-Indian, or of one of his own countrymen, the only thought which will occur to either of them is to send him to Europe or to an Indian School of Art, to be drilled in the European way of seeing things—a still surer method of extinguishing whatever artistic individuality the recipient of this well-intentioned patronage may possess.