Which one of the following was introduced with the coming of British art in India during the colonial period?
- A.Mural art
- B.Oil painting
- C.Perspective
- D.Miniatures
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Oil painting. Painting in oil on canvas was unknown in India before European artists and the colonial art schools brought it in during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Indian painters had worked in tempera and watercolour on walls, palm leaf, paper and cloth. Raja Ravi Varma of Kerala is the best known Indian master of the new medium, using oil and academic modelling for Hindu mythological subjects such as Shakuntala and Damayanti.
Option A, mural art, is ancient in India, from Ajanta and Bagh to the Kerala temple walls. Option D, miniatures, are equally Indian, from the Pala palm leaf manuscripts through the Mughal, Rajasthani and Pahari schools. Option C, perspective, is the tempting distractor: systematic linear perspective did come with European art, but the question asks what was introduced as a form of painting, and the oil medium is the standard answer to this stem.
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