Buddhism was widely propagated in Kanishka's time.
In the first century, Buddhism was divided into "Hinayana" and "Mahayana".
The Mahayana sect considered Buddha as the form of God and started worshiping his idols, hence the creation of a large number of idols of Buddha.
Various styles of sculpture were born from the creation of Buddha statues.
Three major styles of Indian sculptural art developed: $(1)$ Mathura art style, $(2)$ Gandhara art style and $(3)$ Amravati art style.
Gandhara art style: The explanation of Gandhara art style is as follows.
Gandhara in northwestern India was influenced by the Mauryan, Greek, Shung and Kushan regimes and cultures.
Greek, Roman, Indo-Greek, Buddhist etc. Indo-European mixed art style was born in this region.
The subject of Gandhara art was Buddhism.
But his art style was a mixture of Greek and Indian art.
The Greeks, Saks and Kushans were the guardians of the Gandhara art style.
Statues of Buddha and Bodhisattva were made in Gandhara style.
This art style uses brown and blue colored stones.
The main feature of the Gandhara art style is that the Buddha statues depict the body instead of the price.
It depicts Gautama Buddha with a fleshy body with curly hair.
This is because the Greeks used to depict the body instead of the price in sculpture.