British colonization in India introduced forms of western art such as realist and romantic landscape painting, portraiture and ethnography in water colors and oils, and later, printmaking and photography. At the same time, it disrupted the patronage for existing traditions of indigenous art making in India, which were replaced by new forms of art such as Company painting, Salon painting and urban folk painting. The opening of a number of Govt. Art Colleges by the British in major cities of India helped to foster this change of art practice, but also give birth to a critical movement and reinvention of nationalist themes and styles of painting. This talk will cover the history of this transition in art making, which roughly spans the period 1750-1920.
PhD > Writing, Consciousness, Arts, Translations
