A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.s8.t2.8

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Mr. Roger Fry holds a poor opinion of the work of the modern artists. ‘Such pictures as that of "The Siddhas of the Upper Air",' he observes, 'show that, however anxiously these artists strive to adopt the formulae of their ancestors, the spirit that comes to expression is that of the American magazine illustrator. Nothing, indeed, could provide a stronger proof of the profound corruption which contact with European ideas has created in Oriental taste than these well-intentioned but regrettable drawings.'¹