Kalighat paintings

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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. ---

The famed Kalighat painters or Calcutta had to seriously contend with the oleograph, the wood-cut print, and the newsheet to make their work viable.