Thursday, 18 February 2016

Rajasthani paintings


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Introduction of Paintings
Rajputana- Art Treasure of India: - Rajasthan is a land of wonderful legends of romance and bravery. India's region in the north-west corner of the sub-continent is of amazing beauty- packed with art, history, and culture that goes back to several centuries.

Rajasthan’s role in the expansion of Indian art has been very significant. One of the most innovative and significant example of Rajasthani art treasures is the world of miniature painting. As early as the beginning of the 16th century artists of Rajputana, as Rajasthan was called in ancient times, were practicing and perfecting this art. The spirit of Rajasthan's history and legend, coloured by Courage and romance, finds expression in miniature paintings of different painting schools. Pure Rajput paintings and those affected by Mughal court give an interesting awarness into the lifestyle of the centuries and continue to attract scholars to this day.

Rajasthan Paintings:Rajasthan Paintings were founded at Udaipur in 1996.Rajasthan Paintings are placed in Udaipur - The City of Lakes. When you come to Rajasthan Paintings you can be sure that you have come to the right place where you satisfy your search for Rajasthani Art. Our group of more than 12 experienced artists are expert in reproductions of all kind of themes on different material. Today Rajasthan Paintings have developed as one of the important art schools of Rajasthan. That’s the main reason why art lovers from all over the world who are fond of Rajasthani Miniatures paintings visit Rajasthan Paintings. Here one can see a wide range of high-quality paintings from well-known Rajasthan.

The traditional Indian painting started failing after the first half of the 18th century and by the end of the century it lost most of its strength and attraction. However, in the Pahari region the art of painting uphold its quality till the end of the first quarter of the 19th century. The traditional styles of Indian painting finally died out in the second half of the 19th century under the conflict of the Western colours and method of painting.

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Miniature Painting
As Hindu-rulers of Rajputana carry on close political and social links to the Mughal court, one can examine strong Mughal influence paintings here.Influenced by the surroundings, miniature paintings have their own unique style; court assemblies and hunting expeditions, hills and valleys, religious festivals, processions and scenes from the life of Lord Krishna - a widely devoted Hindu God in India.

Miniature paintings are different in size and material. Paper, silk and wood was used, for more precious paintings also marble and ivory. The colours were made from minerals and vegetables, valuable stones as well as pure silver and gold. The mixing and preparing of colour was an elaborate process. It took weeks, sometimes months, to get the desired results. The brushes have to be very fine and are therefore prepared by the artists themselves. To get high-quality results, the brush is even today made from hairs of the squirrels, tail- carefully cut without harming the little animal.

Tradition of Miniature Paintings in Rajasthan
The tradition of the miniature paintings in Rajasthan is very rich in its form, colors, texture, and storytelling. The Kishangarh School of miniature Rajasthani Painting is one of the popular and richest forms. Rajasthan is the main center of this art and even today regions of Jodhpur, Jaipur, Udaipur and Kota look after the art schools of miniature paintings. The two chief school of the art are the Mughal School and Rajput School. While Mughal school is obvious by moderate colors to give depth, the Rajput have skills in using colourful exciting shades to make it more showy.
 
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Tradition of Miniature Paintings in Rajasthan
The tradition of the miniature paintings in Rajasthan is very rich in its form, colors, texture, and storytelling. The Kishangarh School of miniature Rajasthani Painting is one of the popular and richest forms. Rajasthan is the main center of this art and even today regions of Jodhpur, Jaipur, Udaipur and Kota look after the art schools of miniature paintings. The two chief school of the art are the Mughal School and Rajput School. While Mughal school is obvious by moderate colors to give depth, the Rajput have skills in using colourful exciting shades to make it more showy.
 
Amalgamation of art, poetry and classical music in medieval India.
The origin of miniature paintings is embedded in the history of Rajasthan. A land known for its artistry Rajasthan has always been famous for these little wonders. The numerous invasions in Rajasthan have left an unforgettable mark on its history and culture.The miniature paintings reflect this too.

Various types of Rajasthani schools of Paintings are prospered in Rajasthan from the 16th century onwards. Some of the Famous School Of Paintings are -The Mewar school, Bundi school, Kota School, Bikaner School, Jaipur School, Marwar School and Kishangarh School. Each Rajasthani school of Painting has its distinct and unique style.

Rajasthani school of Painting remained entirely traditional in its supernatural example of Indian Literature and the Indian epics. Therefore we will definitely say that the expansion of the Rajasthani school of Paintings is the pictorial match of the native literature of India. In this regard Rajasthani School of Paintings may be presented as a mixture of folk art with classic and hieratic traditions.

It is really interesting that in Rajasthan the art of wall painting received a new lease of life with the paintings of Palaces and Havelis which was then in trend in the early 18th century. Among the Rajasthani school of Painting the school of Kota, Bundi and Bikaner adapted some of the typical conventions of the Mughal miniature. The much followed depictions of these wall paintings are battles and the parade and folk deities. Folk style art was main in portraying the art. The wall paintings in the Palaces of Bikaner, Udaipur and Bundi are still considered as the classical works of art and artistry of Rajasthani school of Painting which carefully advanced the art and artistry of India.

A number of Hindu Rajput Kingdoms like Bikaner, Jodhpur, Bundi, Kota and Mewar support Indian art in Rajasthan. Many were extremely affected by the Mughal style of Painting while some diverge from the typical style of Mughal miniature.Rajasthani school of painting with its absolute splendor demonstrates a particular school of art which once stood apart in terms of both subject matter and formation from exactly the modern work of the artists attached to the courts of the Mughals.
 
Various Schools of Miniature Paintings
Jodhpur School of Miniature Paintings - The Jodhpur school of miniature paintings is the heart of Rajasthan. relay. The tourists will be surprised to see the elaborative art work.These paintings are prepared by hand and show love scenes of famous lovers like Dholu and maru on camel back. Hunting scenes with animals like elephants and horses are also seen here which become the most popular figures. A lot of gold and stone colors are used to paint them.

Mughal School of Miniature Paintings -
Once upon a time the kingdoms of Amer, jaipur, Bairat and many others have good relations with the Mughals.The latter, too, were well-known for its crafts. Hence the outcome of these two influences Popularized love scenes and the Mughal royal courts as their main themes. These were painted on silk by using golden and stone colors. Bikaner too was known for the Mughal influence on its art. Here the used colors are prepared from precious stones, vegetables, silver, minerals, indigo, and pure gold.

Bani Thani Paintings -
Bani Thani Paintings are another Popular school of miniature paintings.Fabulous features are to be seen in this totally different type of painting. This form of painting has derived its name from the singer poet of Nagari Das’s (Raja Sawant singh) court, Bani Thani. Miniature Paintings is still done in the regions of Jaipur, Kishangarh and others.

Mewar Paintings -
The initial example of Mewar painting is a series of the Ragamala painted in 1605 A.D. at Chawand, a small place near Udaipur, by Misardi. Most of the paintings of this series are in the set of Shri Gopi Krishna Kanoria. One more vital series of the Ragamala was painted by Sahibdin in 1628 A.D. Other examples of the Mewar painting are the illustration to the third book (Aranya Kanda) of the Ramayana dated 1651 A.D., in the Saraswati Bhandar, Udaipur, the seventh book (Uttara Kanda) of the Ramayana dated 1653 A.D. in the British Museum, London and a series of the Ragamala miniature of almost the same period in the National Museum, New Delhi. An example from the Ragamala series painted by Sahibdin in 1628 A.D. which is now in the National Museum, is the miniature that shows the Lalita Ragini.The heroine is lying on a bed with her eyes closed under a painted pavilion with a door, while a maid presses her feet. Outside, the hero is seen carrying a thread of material in both hands. In the foreground is a caparisoned horse with a groom sitting near the steps of the pavilion. The drawing is bold and the colours are colorful and different. The text of the painting is written in black on the top against the yellow ground.


 

Tuesday, 16 February 2016

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LAND PAINTINGS
The earliest forms of art around the world depict little that could really be called landscape, although ground-lines and sometimes indications of mountains, trees or other natural features are included. The earliest "pure landscapes" with no human figures are frescos from Minoan Greece of around 1500 BCE.[6] Hunting scenes, especially those set in the enclosed vista of the reed beds of the Nile Delta from Ancient Egypt, can give a strong sense of place, but the emphasis is on individual plant forms and human and animal figures rather than the overall landscape setting. For a coherent depiction of a whole landscape, some rough system of perspective, or scaling for distance, is needed, and this seems from literary evidence to have first been developed in Ancient Greece in the Hellenistic period, although no large-scale examples survive. More ancient Roman landscapes survive, from the 1st century BCE onwards, especially frescos of landscapes decorating rooms that have been preserved at archaeological sites of Pompeii, Herculaneum and elsewhere, and mosaics.[7]

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The Chinese ink painting tradition of shan shui ("mountain-water"), or "pure" landscape, in which the only sign of human life is usually a sage, or a glimpse of his hut, uses sophisticated landscape backgrounds to figure subjects, and landscape art of this period retains a classic and much-imitated status within the Chinese tradition.
Both the Roman and Chinese traditions typically show grand panoramas of imaginary landscapes, generally backed with a range of spectacular mountains – in China often with waterfalls and in Rome often including sea, lakes or rivers. These were frequently used, as in the example illustrated, to bridge the gap between a foreground scene with figures and a distant panoramic vista, a persistent problem for landscape artists. The Chinese style generally showed only a distant view, or used dead ground or mist to avoid that difficulty.

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A major contrast between landscape painting in the West and East Asia has been that while in the West until the 19th century it occupied a low position in the accepted hierarchy of genres, in East Asia the classic Chinese mountain-water ink painting was traditionally the most prestigious form of visual art. Aesthetic theories in both regions gave the highest status to the works seen to require the most imagination from the artist. In the West this was history painting, but in East Asia it was the imaginary landscape, where famous practitioners were, at least in theory, amateur literati, including several Emperors of both China and Japan. They were often also poets whose lines and images illustrated each other.[8] However, in the West, history painting came to require an extensive landscape background where appropriate, so the theory did not entirely work against the development of landscape painting – for several centuries landscapes were regularly promoted to the status of history painting by the addition of small figures to make a narrative scene, typically religious or mythological.


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Monday, 15 February 2016

3d paintings

3D PAINTINGS


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The World Of 3D Street Art: Renaissance Roots

The penchant for putting chalk to sidewalk was practiced widely by Italian vagabond artists. Known as the Madonnari because of their copious reproductions of Madonna, the artists would travel between festivals, creating religious works from brick, charcoal, colored stones and chalk. Giving credence to the ‘starving artist’ stereotype, the Madonnari lived solely off the coins passers-by tossed at them for their skill.

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This practice continued for centuries until the hardships of WW2 significantly reduced the numbers of the Madonnari. However, the art form was revitalized thanks to the International Street Painting Festival in Northern Italy, and the tradition has morphed

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3D street art — alternatively known as pavement, chalk or sidewalk art — is a form of anamorphic art pioneered by American Kurt Wenner. Sprawling over sidewalks, walls, and public spaces, artists use chalk or pastels to render pictures that use mathematical continuation of perspective to give the illusion of three-dimensionality. Though the medium is widely regarded as a modern art, street art traces its origins back to the Renaissance.

  3D Street Painting
Pavement painting, pavement drawing and sidewalk chalk art is done by artists from all over the world, such as the street painters Kurt Wenner or Edgar Mueller or the pavement artist Julian Beever. Through the study of anamorphosis used in the paintings of the Renaissance and Baroque periods to give an illusion of more height and broadness, Kurt Wenner developed a new form of street art, the 3D street painting, to produce three-dimensional impressions on a two-dimensional horizontal surface, the asphalt.

This new art form of street painting has been gaining in importance all around the globe and is disseminated by numerous artists. It is admired at street painting festivals as well as promotional events.

Manfred Stader combines the street painters' "folk" art, which sprung up in Italy in the 16th century, with the modern perception of illusion painting of the 21st century, using pastel chalk. This art appeals to a very large audience.

The most popular form of his art as a street painter are the interactive projects - or interactive street art - where onlookers can pose in a logical connection with the pavement art image to get photographed or filmed.

A brand new form of pavement drawing is XXL 3D street painting - as seen for instance in the latest work of Edgar Mueller. It is mostly done directly onto the asphalt by using acrylic paints. An example of this type of 3D pavement art can be found at the the top of this site under XXL - Schiphol Waterfall. 

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  Pavement painting, pavement drawing and sidewalk chalk art is done by artists from all over the world, such as the street painters Kurt Wenner or Edgar Mueller or the pavement artist Julian Beever. Through the study of anamorphosis used in the paintings of the Renaissance and Baroque periods to give an illusion of more height and broadness, Kurt Wenner developed a new form of street art, the 3D street painting, to produce three-dimensional impressions on a two-dimensional horizontal surface, the asphalt.

This new art form of street painting has been gaining in importance all around the globe and is disseminated by numerous artists. It is admired at street painting festivals as well as promotional events.

Manfred Stader combines the street painters' "folk" art, which sprung up in Italy in the 16th century, with the modern perception of illusion painting of the 21st century, using pastel chalk. This art appeals to a very large audience.

The most popular form of his art as a street painter are the interactive projects - or interactive street art - where onlookers can pose in a logical connection with the pavement art image to get photographed or filmed.

A brand new form of pavement drawing is XXL 3D street painting - as seen for instance in the latest work of Edgar Mueller. It is mostly done directly onto the asphalt by using acrylic paints. An example of this type of 3D pavement art can be found at the the top of this site under XXL - Schiphol Waterfall.

Thursday, 4 February 2016

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Sadanga of Indian painting

Around the 1st century BC the Sadanga or Six Limbs of Indian Painting, were evolved, a series of canons laying down the main principles of the art.[2] Vatsyayana, who lived during the third century A.D., enumerates these in his Kamasutra having extracted them from still more ancient works.
These 'Six Limbs' have been translated as follows:[2]
  1. Rupabheda The knowledge of appearances.
  2. Pramanam Correct perception, measure and structure.
  3. Bhava Action of feelings on forms.
  4. Lavanya Yojanam Infusion of grace, artistic representation.
  5. Sadrisyam Similitude.
  6. Varnikabhanga Artistic manner of using the brush and colours. (Tagore.)
The subsequent development of painting by the Buddhists indicates that these ' Six Limbs ' were put into practice by Indian artists, and are the basic principles on which their art was founded.

Genres of Indian painting


Painting of Mysore style during tippu sultan period
Indian paintings can be broadly classified as murals and miniatures. Murals are large works executed on the walls of solid structures, as in the Ajanta Caves and the Kailashnath temple. Miniature paintings are executed on a very small scale for books or albums on perishable material such as paper and cloth. The Palas of Bengal were the pioneers of miniature painting in India. The art of miniature painting reached its glory during the Mughal period. The tradition of miniature paintings was carried forward by the painters of different Rajasthani schools of painting like the Bundi, Kishangarh, Jaipur, Marwar and Mewar. The Ragamala paintings also belong to this school, as does the Company painting produced for British clients under the British Raj.
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If Neanderthal man created any form of art, no traces of it have yet been found. But with the arrival of modern man, or Homo sapiens sapiens, the human genius for image-making becomes abundantly clear.

In the recesses of caves, people begin to decorate the rock face with an important theme in their daily lives, the bison and reindeer which are their prey as Ice Age hunters. And sculptors carve portable images of another predominant interest of mankind - the swelling curves of the female form, emphasizing the fertility on which the survival of the tribe depends.









Cave paintings: from 31,000 years ago

  Prehistoric cave paintings have been discovered in many parts of the world, from Europe and Africa to Australia. Africa has some of the earliest paintings and rock engravings to have been securely dated. Nearly 30,000 years old, they are discovered in 1969 on the rock face in a cave near Twyfelfontein in Namibia. But the most numerous and the most sophisticated of prehistoric paintings are on the walls of caves in southwest France and northern Spain.

About 150 painted caves have been discovered in this region. Perhaps the most startling of all are the paintings in Chauvet cave, found as recently as 1994 and thought to be as much as 31,000 years old. But far better known, as yet, are the glories of Altamira and Lascaux.










The walls and ceilings of these caves are covered in paintings, with shades of red, brown, yellow and black created from powdered minerals, probably mixed with animal blood and fat. The subjects are mainly the animals of the chase - bison, wild cattle, horses and deer. Many of the paintings are d