Swadeshi Style

Western techniques and styles. One of the famous knowns of the early painters to work in oil on canvas was the portrait painter Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906).

On the other side, when the artist was turning to the western technique, there was some movement which was rising up against it, and Swadeshi movement was one of them. Swadeshi meant self-sufficiency, an attitude which meant that the Indians decided to discard British and look at indigenous sources. This approach rejected the ideology of the West and explored the possibilities of East in its rich heritage as a source of inspiration and representation. In this time period artist took inspiration from the eastern countries of their arts and wash technique of Japan was one of them. There was some group of artist who was promoting the Swadeshi art in India. Bengal school had the very high approach to this concern. Abanindranath Tagore (Fig 05), Nandlal Bose etc. artists was very full of life in this movement.

In the market, there are different Artists who are taking a shot at the subject of Calendar Art, and Kishan Soni is one of them. He came in a similar thought with the new taste of structures, texture and visuals. His canvases are the appointment of the old master's sketches which were

But the condition of traditional art was very much poor, their kings were suffering from their own fights to the British empire, At this point, most of the kings and their kingdoms have been destroyed, even they have no enough money to survive themselves so some of them left the artists and their families. And then capable kings also did not want to bring up their painters in that time period even the public was not accepting their traditional art. The courts of the princely states of India were an important draw for European artists due to their patronage of the visual and performing arts and also their need for European style of