
Lovers in Art
In the decade... 1795 - 1805
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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).
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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.
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Bagta developed an expressive and flamboyant personal style.
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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.
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Indian artists didn't use perspective and painted 2 dimensional art that are not meant to look realistic.
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They were stylists, not realists.
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There were Indian artists who began to use the European style of realism in their paintings.