Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.95

c12.95

The scene may be in the rugged hills of Rajputana, in the fastnesses of which the gallant Rajput chiefs often took refuge when their country was overrun by the Mogul armies. No doubt the artist had often watched such an effect as this and imbibed its solemn, mysterious beauty. The largeness and generalisation of the treatment are qualities which modern European painters of the impressionist school have often aimed at, but seldom realised with so much spontaneity and little self-consciousness as this Indian picture exhibits, for here there is no conscious effort to produce an effect called artistic, but a simple interpretation of Nature as it revealed itself to the artist.