Identifier: cu31924016181798 (find matches)
Title: Indian sculpture and painting, illustrated by typical masterpieces, with an explanation of their motives and ideals
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Havell, E. B. (Ernest Binfield), 1861-1934
Subjects: Sculpture Painting
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tative skill is being acquired by practice.In modern European art academies, the creativepower usually lies fallow in the most importantyears of a students mental development, whilethe imitative skill is being acquired by a drearyroutine of more or less mechanical exercises. Inthis respect art-teaching only repeats the errors ofwhat we mis-call classical education in publicschools; but the habit thereby engendered ofregarding art as a technical process, rather than acreative faculty, explains to a great extent thearchaeological critics standpoint in regard toIndian art. Deer-hunting by Night (Plate LX v.) is anothercharacteristic example of Indian impressionism.It is a landscape with two figures only, a man anda woman, both scantily dressed with a girdle ofleaves. The mans head is crowned with a wreathof leaves, and he is armed with bow and arrows ;the woman stands behind a bush holding a lightedlantern in one hand and a small bell in the other PLATE LXyiTRAVELLERS ROUN». A CAMP-FIRE
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INDIAN IMPRESSIONISM 225 to attract the attention of a herd of deer close by.The man has just discharged his arrow and shotthe buck, while the terrified does scatter in alldirections. The interest of the picture is not, however, inthe figures, which, though good in movement, arevery weak in drawing, but in the composition andchiaroscuro of the landscape. The night is calmand serene, lighted only by the stars and by theglow of the hunters lantern which flashes on thebodies of the frightened deer, and throws intorelief the rocky ground over which they are wildlyrunning in their efforts to escape. The upper partof the picture is simply but beautifully composed,with a broad, winding river, a thick clump of trees,and the star-lit sky; the dark, heavy foliage massedagainst the sky, and the silver-grey reflection onthe water. Some stunted shrubs and a suggestionof a mountain stream fill up the foreground. Thepicture is painted in a very low key, but the colouris luminous and full of atmosphe

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