Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.253

c12.253

One of the few hopeful signs for the future of Indian fine art is the growing appreciation of it marked by the recent inauguration in Calcutta of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, with Lord Kitchener as President and a number of distinguished Anglo-Indians and Indians as members. If the Society serves no other purpose than that of bringing together on an equal footing members of both communities, and of restoring to real Indian artists their lost prestige, it will be a powerful influence for good in Bengal; and, by protecting during its infancy the new development of fine art in the Calcutta School, and creating thereby a new motive for intellectual and social intercourse, it will do much for promoting that mutual understanding between diverse races which is always the surest foundation of empire.