Exhibition - Art

DAG's recently-concluded exhibition titled Destination India: Foreign Artists in India, 18571947, organised in collaboration with Kolkata's Alipore Museum, offered a rare glimpse into the multifaceted artistic interpretations of India through the eyes of nearly forty British and other European artists working with oil and watercolour who visited the country in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-a period when images were being transmitted as picture postcards and photography had become the dominant medium.

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Among other things, these paintings serve as a documentation of the fact that new technology did not put an end to older forms of artistic renditions. These were artists, who came after the early pioneers who visited India in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries-considered as the age of discovery, had a markedly different aesthetic sensibility. While the pioneers focussed on grand monuments and vast new landscapes with the aim to introduce India's great historic heritage to Euro