A Study of Indian Art Painting Techniques

Abstract

In front of Jesus, on a high pillar, there is the big statue of Caesar; at some distance from it, in a dark corner, Jesus is standing in an extremely humiliated condition surrounded by Roman soldiers. Rembrandt passed before his mind the array of episodes relating to the life of Jesus; and having so reviewed them all, he chose for his portrayal, the superb moment when at the end of his strivings in the cause of religion, which Jesus regarded to be true, he was discarded by his own people and brought in a humiliated state before the Roman Judge. The choice of this particular moment, though revealing the great artistic insight of Rembrandt, fails to put Jesus in the proper perspective as revealed in a saintly personality taken as a whole. The Indian artists, however, particularly when they represented the character of the Buddha or the Bodhisattva, of the gods and goddesses, did not lay emphasis on any passing feeling of delight, anger, hatred or the like, but they tried to discover the true personality as the object of creation. This personality was perceived by them as dominating over individual moments of varying emotions and could be regarded characterising the soul or essence of the artist's object of creation.