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HISTORY OF INDIAN ART
 
Origin and development of Rajasthani painting

Origin
 
Rajput paintings were confined around Rajasthan, Bundelkhand and Punjab region of the Himalayas. It has been subdivided into two styles based on geographic and stylistic differences:
The Rajasthani School covering the areas of Mewar (later Udaipur), Jaipur, Bundi, Kishangarh, Jodhpur, Bikaner.
 
The Pahari School includes painting of Basohli, Kangra , Guler, Nurpur, Chamba, Mandi, Haripur and Tehri- Garwal. Each of the schools is a complete unit comprising many sub-schools.
 
Development
 
Two major factors contributed greatly to the development of Rajasthani Paintings. First, the economic prosperity enjoyed by the commercial community of Rajasthan. Second, the revival of Vaishnavism and the growth of Bhakti cult.
 
In the 14th century the influence of poets and writers like Ramanuja , the worshipper of Lord Vishnu and Jaydev,the worshipper of Lord Krishna brought about great changes in the art,literature and spiritual awakening of the people all over India.
 
The appearance of Sri Chaitanya and Meerabai and their total devotion and love for Lord Krishna swept over the whole of India.
 
Rajasthani and Pahari paintings were greatly influenced by the advent (arrival) of Ramananda, Tulsidas, Kabir. lt resulted in the expansion of the imaginative horizon of the artists and in the inclusion of subjects related to Sri Ramcharit, Geet-Govida, Hara- Parvati, ancient tales, live of saints, Baramasa or the monthly festivities of the year and Rag-Raginis based on Indian classical music. Scenes from the Ramayana and Mahabharata, works belonging to the Krishna cult of the Geet-Govinda (written by the Bengali court-poet Jaydeva in 12th century), Bhagvat Puran, the works of Surdas, Keshavdas and Beharilal was a favourite subject-matter for Rajasthani painters because it deals exclusively with the romantic exploits of Radha and Krishna in a pastoral settings.
 
The prepondering theme in these illustrations is love in all its form (treated in variety of ways), as in Nayak -Nayika Bheda" (classification of heros-heroins), Folk-lore and ballads (biraha, type of lok geet) like Dhola-Maru, Sohni-Mahinwal, Laur-Chand, (a papular north Indian biraha by Daut Maulana). Sanskrit classics like Kadambari by Banbhatta, Rasikpriya, Ramchandrika and love episode of Chaut-Panchasika, Nala-Damayanti were illustrated.
These are the illustration of genre (variety) type paintings in Rajasthani Schools. All these changes in the approach to Rajasthani painting were direct result of the 14th century cultural renaissance that swept the whole Central and North-Western India.
 
The special style of the Rajasthani paintings shows a primitive vigour, bold outlines and brilliant colours set in a harmonious pattern. Regional features in the depiction of facial types, local scenery and technical details can be found in different sub-schools.
 
Rajasthani painting, like Indian literature, is a symbolic expression of a multiple aesthetic sentiments of lndian life, its nature and daily activities and sudden flashes of emotional thought is a unique feature of Rajasthani painting.
 
The use of different colours to express different thought is very clear in this style. The artists reveal an unusual understanding of colour harmony. Colours carry for them distinct meaning as red depicts warm, emotion and fury, yellow the marvelous, brown the erotic. Colours are also used to represent specific musical modes which constitute a special feature of Indian Art in the Ragamala paintings. There is a special position in the series of Ragamala painting; bright colours and bold outlines are its salient feature. Paintings are left to the imagination and emotion of the viewers for interpretation. They are economical in choosing the subject-matters, but very expressive. These paintings are two-dimensional with simplification of lines and flat colour schemes with presentation of all figures in same dimension in complete disregard of perspective.The use of bright red, blue, yellow and green colours gave it a contrasting brilliance.
 
In this style generally, when the artists painted the figure of a woman, the same figure would be duplicated for other woman in the painting as symbol of all femininity. All would have large lotus eyes, flowing tresses (curls), firm breasts, slender (slim) waists and rosy hands. Soon after Rajasthani painting was accepted as an established school of painting, it must have in close contact with Mughal School of painting and contact with Mughal court was inevitable. But it is an established fact that at no time the proud Rajput would yield in spirit to foreign masters.The nomenclature Rajasthani painting is not given to any rootless set of painting that grew indigenously at any one place, but is a concerted effort by group of master painters to develop this new type of painting where Western Indian painting, Jain Manuscript painting and Gujarat style were fused together to give rise to this new genre of painting.The centre where these activities and experiments were carrier through was Mewar which was least affected by series of Mughal attack and painters were left in peace to develop their own style.


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