Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.200

c12.200

It is significant, also, that Mr. Tagore, though well educated in the European sense, never came within the depressing intellectual environment of an Indian university, and very speedily gave up the European routine of technical training to which his artistic inclinations at first led him. Having thus escaped the Scylla and Charybdis on which so many Indian art-students have been wrecked, he devoted himself to a close study of the collection of Indian pictures which I was then beginning to make for the Calcutta Art Gallery, and this collection has been the guiding influence in his artistic development, although in matters of technique he