The art of India may be described as theological or traditional because, like the art of the European middle ages, it was dedicated to revealing the divine nature of the gods and advancing the church. The aim was to instruct men in the truths of religion with the objects of worship. The Indian artist was trained in the uses of proportion and harmony to produce images which, in their abstract perfection, suggests the divine nature of the original, basically abstractions of the human form.
The Indian artist tried to create a supernatural ideal often presented in abstract terms only related to the actual physical body or its proportions. The art was intended to suggest better than mortal attributes, and also had a sensualness about it, often with references to fertility.
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