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Paintings of India
Indian
paintings
traditions go back to antiquity, as is evident from the murals
of Ajanta, Ellora and other frescoes, the Buddhist palm leaf
manuscript, the Jain texts and the Deccan, Mughal and Kangra
schools of miniature Indian painting. The Indian Painting
is an old tradition, with ancient texts outlining theories of
color and subjective accounts suggesting that it was common for
households to paint their doorways or indoor rooms where guests
resided.
Floor Painting -
When we come to a later on period, we find a definite well-known
tradition of paintings on various objects, particularly floors,
walls and on intimate objects of everyday use, and in most
instances the act being connected with some ritual. The origin
of canvas is traced to a moving legend record in the
ChitraJakshana-the earliest Indian treatise on painting. When
the son of a king's high priest died, Lord Brahma (the Creator)
asked the king to paint a likeness of the boy so that he can
breathe life into him again. This is how the first painting was
made. The Chola rulers in the south, made extensive use of kolam,
floor designs.
Wall painting - Wall
painting has been a feature of India even before it had any
organized civilization as such. Human beings felt the
uncontainable urge of expressing their feelings, emotions,
fears, hopes, imaginations and observations, and they
articulated all these through the non-verbal art of painting.
Mughal Miniature
Paintings - Of all the art forms in the Mughal period,
miniature paintings are painstakingly painted creations that
depict the events and lifestyle of the Mughals in their
wonderful palaces. Other paintings include portraits or studies
of wildlife and plants. This art is still alive and popular in
Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.
Madhubani Painting -
Madhubani or Maithili painting has its roots in the daily
rituals and customs of a small hamlet of the same name in Bihar,
India. Women of the region articulated their imaginations, hopes
and desires in lines and colors on the austere walls of their
humble houses. Festivities and events, specially, the ritual of
marriages was considered incomplete without these paintings.
Presently, Madhubani painting has crossed the borders of hearth
and home, to occupy positions of acclaim in the International
arts fraternity.
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