Indian Art - Mirror of Indian Culture

1. Indian Art - Mirror of Indian Culture Indian art is one of the most diverse and versatile types of art. It includes a variety of art forms including plastic arts (e.g. pottery, sculpture), visual arts (e.g. paintings) and textile arts (e.g. woven silk). The most striking feature of Indian art is its design and it can be seen in its traditional and modern forms. Art in India originated in the 3rd millennium BC. With time, Indian art got blended with cultural as well as religious influences. In spite of this religious mixture, the main share has been shared by main religious groups. In historic art, sculptures in stone and metal have resisted the climatic conditions in the best way. Early Indian art comprises Rock art; it includes paintings, engravings, and carvings. The very first rock carvings in India were discovered by Archibald Carlyle. In Central India, situated around the Vindhya Mountain range, Dr. V.S.Wakankar invented several painted rock shelters. The scenes generally depicted by these pictures are of human beings along with animals and hunts with stone implements. Their style varied with region and age. In the Mauryan art, emperor Ashoka constructed several large stupas at important sites from the life of the Buddha. The famous detached Lion Capital of Ashoka with four animals was adopted as the national emblem of India. Buddhist art is another important form of Indian art. The major survivals of Buddhist art were survived after the Mauryan empire, though many were generally destructed by Mughal emperors. Buddhism culture laid maximum stress on construction statues of the Buddha. The Gupta period is generally considered as the peak of Indian art for all the important religious groups. Although Islamic culture was introduced in India as early as the first half of the 10th century, It wasn't till the Mughal Empire got established in Delhi Sultanate in 1555, and Mughals brought with them Mir Sayyid Ali and Abd-al-Samad who were two of the finest of painters from Persian Shah Tahmasp's renowned atelier. During the rule of Akbar, Mughal art established and the number of painters grew from around 30 to around 130 by the mid-1590s. Akbar was very much interested in the art and he used to inspect his art regularly. After the death of Akbar, his son Jahangir came into rule. Jahangir was succeeded by Shahjahan whose most wonderful creation is a notable model of architecture Taj Mahal. Next Emperor was Aurangjeb who forcibly took the throne from his father and in his time, art saw a steep decline because the banned on various forms of art. Contemporary art implies the present time art, the prevailing art. In 1947, India became free from British Rule. A group of six artists- K.H.Ara, S.K. Baker, H.A.Gade, M.F. Hussain, S.H. Raza, and Francis Newton Souza- Founded the Bombay Progressive Artist Group in the Year 1952, so that India can express its art in a new way in free modern India. Though the group got dissolved, it left a big impact on Indian Art. Almost all known artists of the India of the 1950s were associated with the group. Some of those who are famous today are Bal Chabda, Devender Singh, Manish Dey, A. Ramachandran, V.S. Gaitande, Himmat Shah, Krishen Khanna, Ram Kumar Tied Mehta, John Wilkins, K.G. Subramanyan, Akbar Padamsee, and Manjit Bawa. Present day is too much diverse but it has been not so diverse before. There was an increase in discourse about the way. Present day art in India is quite different and varied from the previous time's art. A few well-known artists of the new generation are Bose Krishanamachari and Bikash Bhattacharya. One another important Pakistani modern artist is Ismail Gulgee. Whereas paintings and sculptures kept on gaining their importance in the work of famous artists such as Nalini Malani, Subodh Gupta, Narayanan Ramachandran, Vivan Sundaram, Jitish Kallat. They discovered new directions. Bharti Dayal has experimented in traditional Mithila painting in her own way and discovered her own styles through her own ideas. Those ideas appear to be fresh and unusual. The teaching in art schools in English and other vernacular languages changed the meaning of art today. Critical approach became exhaustive and critics gave a new meaning to art in India. For the original version on Weebly.com visit at: https://knmadelhi.weebly.com/blog/indian-art-mirror-of-indian-culture