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be mid, Indian Art In ko expression of other. .77 ATTLE AND DAIRY PRODUCT CONVERESCE Indian culture of the maje orier Thiertion and lowe Tho Catde And Dairy Produce Confet. inportance All Indian tunic and he art to bardly yet
b a ll A bout op that how clowed is reported not to turo, meh in illown directions supreme in the walonal Idul
Ravi have touched the question of cattle achievement of buwanity. . Vertui' tbation) and the old whe woushtro sufficient date were not be
But there yet romains w ... thara vatrum
be written of the word, vel , puteti i fore it. Yaninders have, it is said, heen Nature of lodian' that a ll be to scooptado ponderal blow the letelt to convert waste land into
wwxlern ludia and to the West, what Silpa Sastra Ny up touched, the mother ultivated tickl. Improvement in inttle
Ruskini's Nature of Gothic' was to und them have forgotted what they berling har let strongly recommended.
Victorian England. Both the achievement mean; the paintings of Tagore Anw better
and the philosophy of Indian Art are appreciated JD Englaud thon in India THE PHILOSOPHY OF INDIAN ART. will alwmt unknown, and are ignorod, as Every year the German collector and the
Ciuchic Art wns ignored a hundrod years American tourists are taking way from - - -
ago. But there are already signs of India the perfect work of byern) crafts BY DR. ANANDA K. COOXARANWARY, 1). Se
change ; and the place of Indian art in men, to place in their Munstmas for the
the loctive culture of humanty instruction of their own designers, or to MR. E. E. Llavell, for tryers l'rinci
hulred years hence is not les suired set about their drawing rooms 'OTTAN al of the acutta Xhol of Art,
than that of Gothic Art to-day. ruenta ; every year, ton, they are hastenand perhaps the only Englishman
Two special ca unes have, together with ing the degeneration of the craftaten by MEILĘ any wiequate knowledge of
defective clucation in modern times, buying the cheap worthless modern work, Indun Art, kus lumurkel that " In Indir
contributed to the neglect of Indian art; which is the result of the craftanen'n disthere has been, during the last hundind
first, the entirely wcientific and Archaeo- covery that anything is god onough for VOLTA A continuous decline of pullie logical approach, and second, the concen- the ordinary tourist. Every year educatel CANCE, that at the present time the
tration of attention upon the artistically Indians, rich Zeminder and Raju, spend #tuuled Indians probably stand behind unimportant work of the landhars more on foreiga luxuries, and love thor of the world in artistie unuler. School. We have only to turn over the on the true art that may be found beside klanding." Italics are mine. I wuppone page of such a works Grunwodele their very gaten. Shall it be waid of there ovuld not stronger evidence of Buddhint Art in India toronline how com- us. an it has
us, as it has been said lately by the laduful character of Engli l' eduen pletely those two obsessions have obscured
#nympathetic student of Egyptian tion, we now understood in ludia, than the consideration of the significance of Nationalism, that our Nationalinna tno in the undisputablo fact, that the great Indian art, as art.
cutive w yet only in the realm of pipe polimujority of person wo educated not
The Giandhara sculptures are probably
tiet. only know nothing of the art of their
It is doing nothing to create a natire UWI ovuntry, but are absolutely unable to the work of law Groeko-Roman ernftanen literature, or even to stimulate Aistorien wppreciate the most characteristic expres striving in vain to interpret Indian ideale
awlie. Bined for ever with diplomatic Mul of their own culture even when
Their work constituted perhaps the least and conutitutional geniowe, the young men their
toho have formed themselves on its trucking ention in called tu i antence.
important chapter in the history of Indian Thuy Luvu indes ver we laugels in art. The wholo qucation of Creek in
are leading an intellectul life us narrot Hluence has boon nipprehended. "The
it is kell. their own lande
The idea of nutionality aprex Nueu elusatul
for thens no neto doors in the world of , renonstrated
zenith of Groek art was iu tlo Afth cenwith reply that perlap tury B. ;
thought. They do not love the pat. the Chaudhara of Indian, cartainly not
They Wulptures ure of some importanto, but Lofore the fourth contury A. D. Mr.
do not need to find a compeluation for peile these wore Jouw under Creek influence ; Vincent Smith's statenient, in the new
tical impotence in artistic creation.
I should rather put the last statement edition of the Imperiul Guzetteer of India, ull really important art came from the Wont then, wit de now." Upon this that Indian sculpture after 300 A. D.
in this way that in the world of art banlly deverves the name of art, will not
there has as yet appeared a sign of life principly the schools of Art in Inuia havu Generally acted. So ingrained in this be endorsed by artista. Aa
corresponding to the vitality of politics! matter of
iden. lact, it was not until the direct otrocts of point of view in the tuinds of Indians also, that when, Ad the result of Mr. decadent classic influence had passed away
For, artistic creation is certainly not te that the Indian genius was able to assert
be regarded as a Iluvell's wympathetie comprehension and
compensation for poli foresight, the European pieturus at the itaelf." The matter depeade fundameut
tical impotence ; much rather shonkel Calcuttu School yr Art were wune your ally upon religious considerations. The
artistic creation and the struggle tot ago vold off, and the valuable collection of philonphics of Ureek and Indian art are
political freedou be equal and cumpleIndiau puutings now there, boyau to poles apart. Greece could not have given
mentary evidence of the vitality of the replace them, there wou
national idealiam. loud outory
to India what is greatest and most from the Nationalist leaders; "Once
tweantial in her art. In comparison with • The nere achool of national art led by more were betrayed," they cried, thin fact, the powible borrowing of parti
Abonendranath Tagore and Aue pupila in
far the only though "timur tent w rubbing us of the oppurcular conventions in of the matest
a very important
exception to the general watemiant. significance; and even here it would be tunity of progress; it is another part of # deliberto scheue to koup us in the
hard to disprove the alternative theory of dark."
common source. A little lealthy prejudice in tavour of things Indiau, merely because they are lilial, would be preferable to
Groek'art was the perlect expresion of A cult of physical kuulan benutyIndian art did not despite beauty, of which it
GUARANTEED had its own ideal, but beauty was not its Gold
only aim. I m was manifestation ;
manifestation volt roality beyond the HIGHEST AWARD GOLD MEDAL Silver
Himitad dondoption of beauty and vigtinn. PORE MUSTARD OIL OIL CAKE FOR
The Grook porlayed humanity; the MANUFACTURED BY BENGA wwamako FOOTBALLS. Indias, God. Greek artis admittedly in CEEVICAL & PHARMACEU. Agents wanted everywhere. no munte g adgatal dete Lista see on application.
Ladian art and were tribution 1 - XNOLTAWDRESLA. • SEN & SENS
of the Infinite Unknown. Without making
Fany comparison of Grook wick Cadian 4* LAHIRI BROTHER'S BISUDAYA 7, Chowringhoa, QALOUTTA. iu rapoot of greatnes of sim ar mobione . DESHI CHINIR AKRAT..
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