Difference between revisions of "Kalighat paintings"
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A lot of traditional Pat painters migrated to Calcutta, also hoping for a better livelihood. | A lot of traditional Pat painters migrated to Calcutta, also hoping for a better livelihood. | ||
The outlines of the Kalighat paintings were simple, allowing them to be copied in the lithograph presses and then filled in with colour. | The outlines of the Kalighat paintings were simple, allowing them to be copied in the lithograph presses and then filled in with colour. | ||
| − | But only with the coming of the chromolithograph was | + | But only with the coming of the chromolithograph was it possible to render the vivid colour in these paintings. |
Revision as of 21:04, 25 April 2009
The British were bringing Western Academia to India- hence the Calcutta School of Art.
A lot of traditional Pat painters migrated to Calcutta, also hoping for a better livelihood.
The outlines of the Kalighat paintings were simple, allowing them to be copied in the lithograph presses and then filled in with colour.
But only with the coming of the chromolithograph was it possible to render the vivid colour in these paintings.
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