Kalamkari & Bengal School: Warli, Patna, Modern Paintings and Important Personalities for NTSE
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Kalamkari
- Done by using kalam (pen) .
- Has two subtypes:
- Mausalipatnam style paintings focus on the Islamic aesthetics and the ripe fruit is used to color the paintings.
- Srikalahasti style draes paintings on the Hindu mythology and the color is drawn from raw fruits.
Warli Paintings
- Tribal paintings
- Maharashtra region
- Mural paintings
- Cow dung is used for background plaster
- White coloured rice paste is used to draw figures.
Manjusha Paintings
- Bhagalpur region, Bihar
- Also called as Angika art
- Mainly snake paintings
- Done on the boxes of jute and paper
Patna Qulam Paintings
- Theme common man, daily life scenes
- Miniature
- Male artists dominates
- Indo-british style
- Painters-sevakram
Baazar Paintings
- Bengal region
- European influence figures of roman and greek statues are copied
- Figures of Indian gods with many arms etc are condemned because they didn՚t follow human representation.
- Everyday baazar scenes, female dancers dancing before british officers
Modern Painting
- Western influence
- Started by Raja Ravi Varma.
- Not started for glorification
- Paintings lady in moon light, Ravan kidnapping sita
Bengal School
- Use of simple colours
- Reactionary approach
- Primitive features are revived
- Painters Abhanindranath Tagore-Arabian night series
- Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
- Use of black ink lines dominate
- Sense of rhythm
- Spiritituality in his images
- Paintings are directly linked to his writings
M. F. Hussain
- Perfect balance between line and color
- Photographer, painter and film-maker
- Picasso of India
- Theme persofication of romance
- Theme abstract art
- Favourite motif horse
- Cubist style