This painting is created by an Indian artist Pestonjee E. Bomanjee which depicts a Punjabi woman. The artist signed 'P. Bomanjee' at the left bottom corner of the painting with a brush in black color.
- Identifier
- ngma-01812
- Material
- Oil, Board
- Note
- Indian art practice underwent a remarkable transformation from the 1870s onwards. Several factors contributed to this shift. One was a swing in public taste, which veered towards naturalism following increased exposure to European aesthetics. The founding of British art schools in India greatly accelerated this process Around this time, one of the earliest students of academic art like Pestonjee Bomanjee was undergoing training at Sir JJ School of Art in the 1860s. Ingested with the lessons of perpetual - representation of the object as they appear- leading to a naturalistic mode rather than conceptual art of Indian tradition, where an idea or an idea is sought to be represented, Pestonjee excelled in the Academic expression of realism is sought to be represented. Pestonjee was one of the pioneers of the Academic expression of realism whose works paved way for a whole generation of artists trained in the art schools of Bombay and Calcutta. These artists were not only trained in the naturalistic representation of figures and objects, but also in the skillful use of a relatively new medium - oil.
- Pages
- 22.8 x 31.8 cm
- Published in
- India
- Type
- Painting
