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  • During the half-century from c. 1770 to 1820 in the Mewar kingdom: works of a family of artists based principally at Devgarh - Bagta (or Bakhta) and his son Chokha (or Kavala).

  • Period of political decline and royal penury for the Sisodia rulers: Bagta and Chokha preserved the best traditions of mid-18th-century Mewar painting, while boldly reinterpreting and reinvigorating its conventional forms.

  • Bagta developed an expressive and flamboyant personal style.

  • Chokha was a vigorous and intensely characterful painter who remained active up to the mid-1820s. His work is robust, sensuous, playful, and resourcefully eclectic in style, and it often reveals anearthy sense of humour.
     

  • Indian artists didn't use perspective and painted 2 dimensional art that are not meant to look realistic.

  • They were stylists, not realists.

  • There were Indian artists who began to use the European style of realism in their paintings.

 

Indian Art in 1800s

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