Category: Art

India is an agricultural country and most of its people live in villages. A village is a collection of small huts in the midst of fields on which the village farmers work. Some villages are big while others are comparatively small. They are generally cut off from the cities and have a different kind of life.Village life has its own charms. Cowper says, “God made the country and man made the town.” Villagers live very close to nature. It is in the country that nature reveals all her beauties to man. Natural beauty of the village has been a source of inspiration for poets, philosophers and artists.The villagers pass a healthy and peaceful life. There is no smoke and noise of the city factories. The sounds of scooters and motor-rikshaws…

In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Industrial Revolution began in Britain and then spread to several other European countries.The Industrial Revolution was a shift from handmade goods to machine-made goods. As machines replaced human labour, goods began to be produced much faster and in larger quantities. ADVERTISEMENTS: The mechanised industries needed a continuous supply of raw materials. They also needed markets for the manufactured goods. To fulfil these needs, the countries with mechanised industries began to establish political control over regions around their trade settlements in other countries. These regions were called colonies.India, thus, became a British colony. The British imposed heavy taxes on the Indians, exported raw materials from India to feed England’s industries and sold their cheap machine-made goods in Indian markets. Most of the…

Emerson in his essay “Art” through an evidence of the artist’s personality gives a fresh and a brand new experience of reality. The consciousness of all the artists expands and as a result, they create concentric circles of artistry.Emerson states that all art old and new emerges from this particular method only. All artists have been involved in helping the people realize the beauty that lies all around them and despite their repeated efforts, the people because of their busy life, fail to appreciate nature and its beauty. ADVERTISEMENTS: Emerson states that art continuously emerges in new forms which at times look shocking and scandalous but the truth is that whatever is revealed at any point of time is suitable for the people who survive then.Emerson further states that true…