Brief details about Rajasthan Miniature paintings

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Miniature paintings of Rajasthani

The Rajasthani Miniature Paintings are one of the most popular paintings in the world. In the 6th – 7th century the Kashmir paintings are more popular than Rajasthani paintings.The kings love to see these small paintings which are obtained from vegetable with sparking colors.  These canvass paintings are more colorful with various themes. These miniature paintings are more remarkable because of their interactive work.

Brief History:

Small and beautiful paintings are represented as Miniature paintings.  In the 11th and 12th century the tradition of miniature paintings are rapidly grown. In those days these miniature paintings were used by people to make manuscripts. These are helpful to store the knowledge on palm leaves. Later the Mughals played vital role in these arts. Mostly these miniature paintings were inspired from the folk themes and epics.

These painting works are mainly based on the culture and the regular activities of the people. These paintings are greatly appreciated by the supporters. Mughals given a good support to this miniature painting, then Rajputs increase the manuscripts of Buddhists and Jains. Royal Rajputs and Mughals highly encouraged this art.

Various themes of Miniature paintings:

The Miniature paintings consist of various themes, motifs and plots. These paintings are done with gentle strokes of brush and colors made from the precious stones, pure gold, conch shells, minerals, indigo, silver and vegetables. The artist needs to spend lot of time for making the perfect color to the arts which gives the aesthetic value to the magnum opuses.

Mostly these paintings are inspired to drawn from Indian epics like Rasamanjiri, Bhagvata Purana, Ramayana, Rasamanjiri, Mahabharata and also the ragas of Indian classical music. Some of the arts also draw Buddhists, Jains, Mughals and Rajput through mentioning their doctrines and texts with these sparkling paintings. The scenes of hunting episodes, flowers, courts, animals like horses and elephants are another important feature in miniature paintings.

Various schools of miniature paintings

Rajasthan is one of the best places for these arts and even some of the regions like Jaipur, Jodhpur, Mewar, Mughal and Kangra are providing best schools for miniature paintings. Mughal School and Rajput School are more famous and important schools to learn these paintings. While the Rajput schools are expertise in using the foreign vibrant shades to make the art in more flashy and Mughal School are marked for muted and moderate colors.

During the power of Jehangir made this art more popular with increasing degree of grace and intricacy. Krishna Legends themes are mostly used by the Rajput school of art. Radha Krishna, Dhola Maru on a camel's back is the well-known themes of Rajput school.
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