Modern Indian Art

Ok so adding to yesterday I got the power points from modern indian art and i came to the conclusion... I really like Thomas Hickey as an artist. I was saving a few of the pictures to my computer to attempt to upload them on to this here blog and every picture I saved was by thomas hickey.

This one is Thomas Hickey, "Portrait of Colonel Colin Mackenzie, Surveyor-General of India with his Attendants” Oil on Canvas, 1816.


Thomas Hickey, “Jemdanee Bibi of William Hickey"
Oil on Canvas,Calcutta 1787

Oh a Bibi is a Dancer/Harlem lady and these women were the only women in society at the time who would show their faces in public. they were exotic and captured the british males attention. many bibi's became mistresses or wives to the british officials. the marriages were not condoned by the churches however so the bibi's and their illegitimate children were ostracized usually. Many of the officials had family's back in England as well.


Thomas Daniell, “The Nautch”
Watercolor, 1810
(not Hickey but still very beautiful... very different from hickey's style too being that it is focused ont he entire picture of an event and not just on a single person)


Thomas Hickey, "Portrait of Muizuddin, Son of the defeated and Slain Tipu Sultan of Mysore?"
Oil on Canvas, 1801

Just thought i'd share some good art with you all enjoy