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INTRODUCTIONINDIA PAINTING HAS VERY LONG TRADITION AND HISTORY IN INDIAN ART.THE EARLIER INDIAN PAINTINGS WERE THE ROCK PAINTINGS OF PRE-HISTORIC TIMES.

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DISCUSSION ON PAINTINGS

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*What is Painting?

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*Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface (support base). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action.

*When was Painting invented?

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*In 2011, South African archaeologists reported finding a 100,000-year-old human-made ochre-based mixture that could have been used like paint. Cave paintings drawn with red or yellow ochre, hematite, manganese oxide, and charcoal may have been made by early Homo sapiens as long as 40,000 years ago.

History of Paintings

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*The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts from pre-historic humans, and spans all cultures. It represents a continuous, though periodically disrupted, tradition from Antiquity. Across cultures, and spanning continents and millennia, the history of painting is an ongoing river of creativity, that continues into the 21st century. Until the early 20th century it relied primaril on representational, religious and classical motifs, after which time more purely abstract and conceptual approaches gained favor.

*Developments in Eastern painting historically parallel those in Western painting, in general, a few centuries earlier. African art, Jewish art, Islamic art, Indian art, Chinese art, and Japanese art each had significant influence on Western art, and vice versa.

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* Finally in the West the idea of "art for art's sake"[began to find expression in the work of the Romantic painters like Francisco de Goya, John Constable, and J.M.W. Turner.  The 19th century saw the rise of the commercial art gallery, which provided patronage in the 20th century.

*Initially serving utilitarian purpose, followed by imperial, private, civic, and religious patronage, Eastern and Western painting later found audiences in the aristocracy and the middle class. From the Modern era, the Middle Ages through the Renaissance painters worked for the church and a wealthy aristocracy.

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HOW WAS PAINTING DEVELOPED?

• The term is generally not used in art history in speaking of medieval painting, although the Western tradition was developing in large altarpieces, fresco cycles, and other works, as well as miniatures in illuminated manuscripts. It comes to the fore in Italian Renaissance painting, where a series of increasingly ambitious works were produced, many still religious, but several, especially in Florence, which did actually feature near-contemporary historical scenes such as the set of three huge canvases on The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello, the abortive Battle of Cascina by Michelangelo and the Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo da Vinci, neither of which were completed.

*Cave painting of aurochs (Bos primigenius), Lascaux, France, prehistoric art

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Indian history of pantings

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The rajasthani school flourished in pre-sultanateperiod.It was revived in the different rajput kingdoms.Nature was the main theme of the panitings,with tree forms,singing bird foliage and rivers being common subjects.

MINIATURE PAINTINGSBY SOURISH

Miniature Paintings:Miniatures paintings are beautiful handmade

paintings, which are quite colorful but small in size. The highlight of these paintings is the intricate and

delicate brushwork, which lends them a unique identity. The colors are handmade, from minerals, vegetables, precious stones, indigo, conch shells,

pure gold and silver. The most common theme of the Miniature painting of India comprises of the Ragas

i.e., the musical codes of Indian classical music. There were a number of miniature schools in the country,

including those of Mughals, Rajputs and the Deccan. 

One of the ancient miniature paintings of India

Miniature Paintings in Ancient India

The evolution of Indian Miniatures paintings started in the Western Himalayas, around the 17th century. These paintings were highly influenced by the mural paintings that originated during the later half of the 18th century. During the time of the Mughals, Muslim kings of the Deccan and Malwa as well as the Hindu Rajas of Rajasthan, this art flourished to quite an extent. Infact, the Mughals were responsible for introducing Persian tradition in the Miniature paintings of India. The credit for western influence can be ascribed to the Muslim kings. 

Mughal PaintingsBy sourish

IntroductionMughal painting is a particular style of Indian painting, generally confined to illustrations on the book and done in miniatures, and which emerged, developed and took shape during the period of the Mughal Empire 16th −19th centuries.

Style and Main ThemeMughal paintings were a unique blend of Indian, Persian and Islamic styles. Because the Mughal kings wanted visual records of their deeds as hunters and conquerors, their artists accompanied them on military expeditions or missions of state, or recorded their prowess as animal slayers, or depicted them in the great dynastic ceremonies of marriages.

Akbar’s and Humayun’s ContributionAkbar's reign (1556–1605) ushered a new era in Indian miniature painting. After he had consolidated his political power, he built a new capital at Fatehpur Sikri where he collected artists from India and Persia. He was the first monarch who established in India an atelier under the supervision of two Persian master artists, Mir Sayyed Ali and Abdus Samad. Earlier, both of them had served under the patronage of Humayun in Kabul and accompanied him to India when he regained his throne in 1555. More than a hundred painters were employed, most of whom were Hindus from Gujarat, Gwalior and Kashmir, who gave a birth to a new school of painting, popularly known as the Mughal School of miniature Paintings.

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