Georges Seurat Le Chahut painting

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her shoulder. "Come on, snap out of it, grow up."
The Chamchawala art collection, housed here at Scandal Point, included a large group of the legendary _Hamza-nama_ cloths, members of that sixteenth-century sequence depicting scenes from the l of a hero who may or may not have been the same Hamza as the famous one, Muhammad's uncle whose liver was eaten by the Meccan woman Hind as he lay dead on the battlefield of Uhud. "I like these pictures," Changez Chamchawala told Zeeny, "because the hero is permitted to fail. See how often he has to be rescued from his troubles." The pictures also provided eloquent proof of Zeeny Vakil's thesis about the eclectic, hybridized nature of the Indian artistic tradition. The Mughals had brought artists from every part of India to work on the paintings; individual identity was submerged to create a many-headed, many-brushed Overartist who, literally, _was_ Indian painting. One hand would draw the mosaic floors, a second the figures, a third would paint the Chinese-looking cloudy skies. On the backs of the cloths were the stories that accompanied