The Changing World of Visual Arts

Identify the artist and the painting

• Damayanthi, painted by Raja Ravi Verma

• Portrait of Madame X painted by John Singer Sargent.

• The Two Fridas painted by Frida Kahlo

• Damayanthi, painted by Johann Zoffany

______ artists introduced the technique of oil painting.

• Mughal

• Rajput

• European

• American

Thomas Daniell and his nephew William Daniell were the most famous of the artists who painted within the _____ painting.

• portrait

• mural

• company

• picturesque landscape

A picture printed onto paper from a piece of wood or metal into which the design or drawing has been cut is called as ______.

The art of making portraits is known as _____

• Murals

• Kumars

• portraiture

• canvas

Unlike the existing Indian tradition of painting portraits in miniature, colonial portraits were life-size images that looked lifelike and real.

• True

• False

As portrait painting became popular, many European portrait painters came to India in search of ______.

• profitable commissions

• housing facility

• relaxation in the country life

• education

Painter Johann Zoffany was born in ______.

• London

• India

• Portual

• Germany

Describe the portrayal of Indians in this picture of The Aurial and Dashwood Families of Calcutta, painted by Johann Zoffany (oil, 1784).

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British victories in India served as rich material for history painters in Britain. WHy?

• to depict for the British public a favourable image of British actions in India

• to celebrate the British: their power, their victories, their supremacy

• to dramatise the event and glorify the British triumph.

• to be remembered, implanted in the memory of people, both in India and Britain.