to know different indian styles of paintings......

1. INDIAN TRADITIONAL
PAINTING STYLE…
 Rajasthani Painting
 Mysore painting
 Tanjore painting
 Madhubani painting
 Pattachitra painting
 Kalamkari painting
 Mughal painting

2. Rajasthani Painting
 Rajasthani Painting also known as
Rajput painting.
 Rajasthani Painting is a style of
Indian painting, evolved and
flourished during the 18th century in
the royal courts of Rajputana,India.
 Rajput paintings depict a number of
themes, events of epics like the
Ramayana and the Mahabharata,
Krishna’s life, beautiful landscapes,
and humans.
 The colours were extracted from
certain minerals, plant sources,
conch shells, and were even derived
by processing precious stones. Gold
and silver were used.
 The preparation of desired colours
was a lengthy process, sometimes
taking weeks. Brushes used were
very fine.

4. Mysore painting
 Mysore painting is an
important form of classical
South Indian painting that
originated in the town of
Mysore in Karnataka.
 Mysore traditional painting are
off-shoots, made a great
historical contribution to the art
of India.
 Mysore paintings are known
for their elegance, muted
colours, and attention to detail.
 The themes for most of these
paintings are Hindu gods and
goddesses and scenes from
Hindu mythology.

5. Tanjore painting
 Tanjore painting is an
important form of classical South
Indian painting native to the
town of Thanjavur (anglicized as Tanjore style
Tanjore) in Tamil Nadu, India. painting depicting
The art form dates back to about the ten Sikh
1600 AD. Gurus with Bhai
Bala and Bhai
 Tanjore paintings are known for Mardana.
their surface richness, vivid
colours and compact
composition.
 Tanjore paintings serving as
devotional icons, the themes of
most of these paintings are
Hindu gods and goddesses, and
saints as well.

6. Madhubani painting
 Madhubani painting or Mithila
painting is a style of Indian painting,
practiced in the Mithila region of
Bihar state, India and the adjoining
parts of Terai in Nepal.
 Themes revolve around Hindu Gods
and mythology, along with scenes
from the royal court and social
events like weddings.
 Generally no space is left empty; the
gaps are filled by paintings of
flowers, animals, birds, and even
geometric designs.
 In this paintings artists uses leaf,
Herbs, Flowers to make the colour
which is used to draw paintings.

7. Pattachitra painting
 Pattachitra refers to the folk painting of the state of Orissa.
 'Patta' in Sanskrit means 'Vastra' or 'clothings' and 'chitra' means paintings.
 These Paintings are based on Hindu Mythology and specially inspired by Jagannath and
Vaishnava cult.
 The painters use vegetable and mineral colours without going for factory made poster
colours. They prepare their own colours.
 The painting the 'pattachitra' resemble the old murals of Orissa especially religious
centres of Puri, Konarak and Bhubaneshwar region, dating back to the 5th century BC.
Various Hindu Gods are shown in Pattachitra

8. Kalamkari painting
 Kalamkari or Qalamkari is
derived from the Persian words
kalam-pen and kari
-craftmanship, meaning drawing
with a pen.
 The Kalamkari tradition chiefly
consists of scenes from Hindu
mythology.
 Kalamkari art has been
practised by many families in
Andhra Pradesh and has
constituted their livelihood over
3000 years old.
 There are two distinctive styles
of kalamkari art in India - one,
the Srikalahasti style and the
other, the Machalipatnam style
of art.

9. Mughal painting
 Mughal painting is a particular style
of South Asian painting.
 Mughal paintings were a unique
blend of Indian, Persian and Islamic
styles.
 Brilliant red, blue and green colours
predominate; the pink, eroded rocks
and the vegetation, planes and
blossoming plum and peach trees
are used for colouring.
 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.