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  2. Kangra painting - Wikipedia

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    The Kangra art style originated in Guler State, a small hill princely state in the Lower Himalayas in the first half of the 18th century when a family of Kashmiri painters trained in the Mughal painting style sought shelter at the court of Raja Dalip Singh (r. 1695–1741) of Guler. The rise of Guler paintings started in what is known as the ...

  3. Hindu art - Wikipedia

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    pushpastarana — art of making a covering of flowers for a bed. dasana-vasananga-raga — art of applying preparations for cleansing the teeth, clothes, and painting the body. mani-bhumika-karma — art of making the jewel garlands. sayya-racana — art of covering the bed. udaka-vadya — art of playing on music in water. udaka-ghata — art ...

  4. Ragamala paintings - Wikipedia

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    Ragamala paintings are a form of Indian miniature painting, a set of illustrative paintings of the Ragamala or "Garland of Ragas", depicting variations of the Indian musical modes called ragas. They stand as a classical example of the amalgamation of art, poetry and classical music in medieval India.

  5. Modern Indian painting - Wikipedia

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    He aims to develop his own styles of painting that progress art in new directions. His experiments are seen in all his paintings. In 2022, he painted a series of 12 Western paintings in what he calls Holeism style, based on various humanitarian issues. He also returned to his abstract Indian women, creating the first of his Timism style paintings.

  6. Indian painting - Wikipedia

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    The pre-historic paintings were generally executed on rocks and these rock engravings were called petroglyphs.These paintings generally depict animals like bison, bear, tigers etc. [11] The oldest Indian paintings are rock art in caves which are around 30,000 years old, such as the Bhimbetka cave paintings.

  7. Indian art - Wikipedia

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    The style gradually spread in the next two centuries to influence painting on paper in both Muslim and Hindu princely courts, developing into a number of regional styles often called "sub-Mughal", including Rajput painting, Pahari painting, and finally Company painting, a hybrid watercolour style influenced by European art and largely ...

  8. Indian miniature paintings - Wikipedia

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    Indian miniature paintings are a class of paintings originating from India. [1] Made on canvases a few inches in length and width, the Indian miniatures are noted for the amount of details that the artist encapsulates within the minute canvas frame; and the characteristic sensitivity with which the human, divine and natural forms are portrayed.

  9. Pattachitra - Wikipedia

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    These paintings are based on Hindu mythology and specially inspired by Jagannath and Vaishnava sect. [13] All colours used in the Paintings are natural and paintings are made fully old traditional way by Chitrakaras that is Odiya Painter. Pattachitra style of painting is one of the oldest and most popular art forms of Odisha.