DAG presents, The Indian Picturesque, a group show unpacking the “picturesque,” a word that carries widely differing meanings. From its use in everyday speech to the specialist meaning intended by the aesthetic theorists who coined it in the 1790s, literally meaning ‘like a picture’, it is open to a range of interpretations. The picturesque was brought to India by pioneering artists like William Hodges and Thomas and William Daniell, whose works have been the subject of previous DAG exhibitions as well. The exhibition focuses on those who came in the first half of the nineteenth century and sustained/ developed their image of India.
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