Empire

Thematic confusion amongst the teachers

Task of preserving the excellence of Indian decoration and improving it with the techniques of Indian naturalism. They were expected to improve the flat design ty learning to reproduce them three dimensionally. The exercise was self defeating, because one had to choose between flat or illusionist treatment but not both at once. Once one moves towards the mimetic representation of objects in natural light, one if forced to sacrifice some of the formal clarity and pure colour arrangement, strength of non representational art.

Artists and the rise of the Indian public.

'The Ramayana and the Mahabharata contain the most inexhaustible stores for pictorial representation which any country possesses. All that is needed to promulgate their beauty and complete their fame is that in their purer and nobler passages and with the powers of European Art, they should engage the service of the national pencil as they have fostered on the national memory and animated in the national voice.' Lord Napier