Hindu Art Its Humanism And Modernism An Introductory Essay
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300-600) or Dhiman and Vitapala of the Pala period (780- 1 175) in India. Nowhere has a sculp- tured image, has relief, or colored drawing been completely "photograph- ic. " Art as such is bound to be inter- pretative or rather originative; and identification of the artist's self with his theme is the sine qua non of all creative elan, in science as in art. We have to recognize, moreover, that saints and divinities are not the exclu- sive themes of art work in India. 20 HINDU ART Hindu art has ...flourished in still life, social (genre), natural, plant, and ani- mal studies as well. The avoidance of the nude in early Christian art has its replica in the East. Physical beauty was not more often a taboo in Hindu art-psychology than in the Western. The dignity of the flesh has left its stamp on India's water colors, gouache paintings, and stone and bronze. Even the figures of the Hindu gods and goddesses are to be perceived as projections of the human person- ality. The medieval Rajput paint- ings of the Radha-Krishna cycle and the Shiva-Doorga cycle can have but one secular appeal to all mankind.
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