Popular Art Forms in The Colonial Period
Popular Art Forms in The Colonial Period
Popular Art Forms in The Colonial Period
2024
• Company paintings in the Company/British Raj
• Kalighat paintings in colonial Calcutta
• Battala woodblock prints in colonial Calcutta
COMPANY PAINTING/SCHOOL
A school of painting that emerged
in the Indian subcontinent ruled by
the British East India Company
during the late eighteenth century.
Company painting was a hybrid
style that was influenced by the
European painting styles of
Daniells and British artists, as well
as existing miniature traditions in
India. It combined the visual
idioms of Mughal and Rajput
miniature painting with Western
modes such as Illusionism and
the picturesque.
Kalighat pats of the Tarakeshwar affair/scandal. (1) The mahant offers Elokeshi childbirth medicine, to
drug her before raping her. (2&3) Nabin attacks and kills Elokeshi.
Battala Woodcut Prints
Mainly known for pulp and ‘obscene’ publications,
a short-lived 19th-century printing industry based
in Bat-tala, in Hoogly district of the north-part of
Kolkata (also called the “Black town” by the
Europeans).