A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.s8.t1.8
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.s8.t1.8
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'The art,' writes Mr. Havell, 'which truly reflects the fictitious culture of Indian universities and the teaching of Anglo-Indian art schools, is exhibited in the paintings of Ravi-varma, who is the fashionable painter of modern India for those Indians who do not ignore Indian art altogether.... Certain it is that his pictures invariably manifest a most painful lack of the poetic faculty in illustrating the most imaginative Indian poetry and allegory; and this cardinal sin is not to be atoned for by any kind of technical skill in the execution.'¹