NCERT Solutions for Class 8 Social Science History Chapter 10: The Changing World of Visual Arts

This chapter will learn about the development witnessed in the colonial era in art and culture. The points brief out the chapter.

• A colonial rule introduced several new art forms, styles, materials, and techniques creatively adapted by Indian artists for local patrons and markets in elite and popular circles.
• One popular British tradition was that of landscape painting. This painting style depicted India as a weird land that could be explored by travelling British artists. The landscape described was rugged and wild, it gave a picture of a land untamed by human hands.
• Another tradition of art which gained popularity in colonial India was portrait painting. The portrait is a picture of a person in which the face and its expression are prominent.
• Large oil paintings on canvas were exhibited to select audiences in Britain. The rich and the powerful, be it either British or Indian, wanted to see themselves depicted on canvas.
• After the battle of Plassey and the successive victories of the British over the native kings,the patrons of the Indian artists saw erosion.
• New styles and art forms such as the Kalighat painting and others came up in various parts of the country, and the world of art underwent a transition.
• People also used art to spread the message of nationalism and awareness among the people about the prevailing social evils.