Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.62

c7.62

Nature, to the European, is always an obvious reality which must be studied, exploited, and analysed, so that the exact composition of every organic and inorganic element in it may be ascertained and explained. In the degenerate popular art of to-day, which exists only to amuse and distract an uncultivated and unthinking section of the public, an art which is also affected by those Indians who put on European culture as they put on a new suit of clothes, this scientific study of Nature's facts has led to the common view that imitation is the real and only end of all fine art.