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Paintings of India
The best form of art comes through paintings of different categories. There in a Painting, the artist puts his creative art and skill enthralling every onlooker, one knowing the nuances of the art or even the one who just enjoys seeing them.
With famous painters of yesterday such as Ravi Varma of Kerala, who was known for his detailed and expressive paintings of historical events and the illustrations of the epics, Indian art has always been admired.
History of Indian Paintings
Paintings of India had emerged as rock paintings right from pre-historic times. Locations like Bhimbetka disclosed paintings of India done before 5500 BC. Buddhist literature contains lot of illustrations in the form of paintings and the paintings in Ajanta Caves are the best examples of significant survivals of those days. Mughal Paintings followed with the fusion of Persian miniature with a blend of Indian tradition prevailing in 17th Century. The Paintings of India produced during British raj during 17th to 19th Century were real marvellous pieces which were bringing gradual transformation of art’s aesthetic continuum from the early civilization to the current world’s taste.
Paintings of India
The genres of Indian paintings are basically two, namely murals and miniatures. The former is laid in solid structures such as Ajanta Caves and those in Kailashnath Temple. Miniature type of paintings is drawn on canvas, paper or books, most of these works were encouraged during Mughal period. The Paintings of India belonging to earlier times, had a grammar for them to fulfil, six principal aspects called sadanga or six limbs governing them, which included
- The knowledge of appearances
- Appropriate perception, structure and measure
- Right feelings on forms
- Artistic representation and Infusion of Grace
- Similitude of the ideas expressed
- The artistic part of using bush and colour
These aspects were defined in Sanskrit as Rupabheda, Prmanam, Bhava, Lavanya Yojanam, Sadrishyam and Varnabhanga, which the ancient artists sincerely followed to make their work standard and supreme.
Varieties of Paintings
The Paintings of India are spread in all the regions of the country each claiming its own supremacy. The miniature Paintings of Eastern India depicting many of the 10th Century Buddhist divinities and life events of Buddha are remarkable, while those from Western India of more or less the same period give expressions of Jain cult. Malwa, Deccan and Jaunpur Schools of Painting and Mughal Paintings, all established in 16th century have wonderful painting styles.
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