Contemporary painting and Indian politics

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Thanks, I would assume these are listed in the fashion of patrons of temples.

Of the top of my head, I can list Scopas (who made portrait of alexander) and Polykleitos and associate very specific artistic characteristics with them. I can also posit one as a reaction to the other. Pliny remarks about hellenistics (who are greek version of overacting): Cessavit deinde ars ("then art disappeared") -from wiki..

I cannot place any of the Indian artists in a similar dialectical framework. Nor do I think any Indian would make as presumptuous a remark as Pliny above. I know that sometimes they would sign their work at most.