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).

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.