Company style (BRITISH PERIOD)

Company style (BRITISH PERIOD)

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  Art of Companystyle Made by - Abhinav gupta B.ARCH 3rd Semister
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  Company style  Companystyle or Company painting is a term for a hybrid Indo-European style of paintings made in India by Indian artists, many of whom worked for European patrons in the British East India Company or other foreign Companies in the 18th and 19th centuries.  The style blended traditional elements from Rajput and Mughal painting with a more Western treatment of perspective, volume and recession.  Most paintings were small, reflecting the Indian miniature tradition, but the natural history paintings of plants and birds were usually life size.
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  Women in aBrothel, Company style, Northern India, San Diego Museum of Art
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   Leading centreswere the main British settlements of Calcutta, Chennai, Del hi, Lucknow , Patna and the Maratha court of Thanjavur.  Subjects included portraits, landscapes and views, and scenes of Indian people, dancers and festivals.  Series of figures of different castes or trades were particular favourites, with an emphasis on differences in costume; now they are equally popular as subjects for analysis by historians of the imperialist mentality.
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  Some of themajor works include Mazhar Ali Khan, who worked on Thomas Metcalfe's Delhi Book, was part of a dynasty of great miniature artists, the patriarch of whom, Ghulam Ali Khan, had worked for William Fraser on a similar commission known as the Fraser Album, considered a masterpiece.
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  Delhi book  DelhiBook or Delhie Book titled Reminiscence s of Imperial Delhi is a collection of paintings done in company style, commissioned bySir Thomas Metcalfe in 1844.  It contains 120 paintings by Indian artists, mainly by Mughal painter, Mazhar Ali Khan.  The book was bought by the British Library and displayed in London
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  A panorama in12 folds showing the procession of the Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II to celebrate the feast of the 'Id., 1843.
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  Fraser Album  FraserAlbum is a collection of paintings commissioned by British Indian civil servant, William Fraser. It is considered among the greatest masterpieces of Indian art.  This work is an important documentation of the Mughal empire towards its end.  The artwork covered the life in Mughal era during the time. It compendium has portraits of villagers, soldiers, holy men, dancing women, Afghan horse-dealers, ascetics, village of Rania and Indian nobles.  Some of the noted Mughal painters like Ghulam Ali Khan, his brother Faiz, and family worked on the Fraser Album, after financial support from the Mughal emperor diminished.  The album works were painted between 1815 to 1819
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  William Fraser, the creator Afolio from Fraser Album, ca 1815-181
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  Material i. Paintings weremostly on paper, but sometimes on ivory, especially those from Delhi. ii. They were mostly intended to be kept in portfolios or albums; the muraqqa or album was very well established among Indian collectors, though usually including calligraphy as well, as least in Muslim examples. iii. The style developed in the second half of the 18th century, and by the early nineteenth century production was at a considerable level, with many of the cheaper paintings being copied by rote. iv. By the 19th century many artists had shops to sell the work and workshops to produce it.
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  Some of thepopular work of this era
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  A Common IndianNightjar The bird is executed with great attention to detail—individual feathers have been outlined and painted with subtle gradations of color, and several shades of brown and black are used to delineate its body markings. The eye has a bright ring around it and the legs are textured with parallel line markings
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  Interior of aMughal Tomb The structure is a domed octagonal chamber with an oculus. The dome itself has been decorated with a diaper-pattern grid. The walls below are articulated with recessed arches and a marble dado inlaid with red and green floral designs. The stone floor has been decorated in a grid pattern with central rosettes and a central inset that resembles a rug
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  Bengal River Fish Thetwin images of each side of the fish are placed by one another, the upper image in a dark gray tone and the lower one in a paler shade of the same color. The mottled, scaly surface of the fish's body is carefully rendered, as are its mouth and eyes.
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  Bengali Woman with water-jarBlack Stork in a Landscape