INFORMATION ON PAINTINGS AND HISTORY OF PAINTINGS

1. Painting
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2. INTRODUCTION
INDIA PAINTING HAS VERY LONG TRADITION
AND HISTORY IN INDIAN ART.THE EARLIER
INDIAN PAINTINGS WERE THE ROCK
PAINTINGS OF PRE-HISTORIC TIMES.
RAJA RAVI
VARMA
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3. DISCUSSION ON
PAINTINGS
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4. *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.

5. *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.

6. History of Paintings
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7. *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.

8. * 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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9. 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.

10. *Cave painting of aurochs (Bos
primigenius), Lascaux,
France, prehistoric art
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11. Indian history of pantings
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12. The rajasthani school flourished in pre-sultanate
period.
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.

13. MINIATURE PAINTINGS
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14. 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.

15. One of the ancient miniature
paintings of India

16. 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

17. Mughal Paintings
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18. Introduction
Mughal 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.

19. Style and Main Theme
Mughal 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.

20. Akbar’s and Humayun’s Contribution
Akbar'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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