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Painting

• What is Painting?

Painting is the practice of applying pigment suspended in a carrier (or medium) and a binding agent (a glue) to a surface (support) such as paper, canvas or a wall.

• Humans started expressing in the form of painting much before writing was invented

Egyptian Painting

• Connection with afterlife

• Connection with hieroglyphs

• Main subjects gods of underworld and the journey towards underworld

• Book of dead

• Style: Body frontal, face in profile

Egyptian Painting 1000BCE

Roman Painting from Pompeii 3rd CE

Roman Painting

• Only wall paintings survive

• Bend towards naturalism

• Use of light and shade to create volume (later seen in Renaissance painting)

Byzantine Art: 6th -7th CE

Byzantine Painting• Middle Ages

• Art more iconic

• Hardly any change in style in 1000 years

• Completely dictated to the Church

• Considering the flatness it almost borders on Abstract painting

• Highly stylized

• Abundant use of gold

• No one point perspective

• Illuminated Manuscripts

• Book Art

• Calligraphy

• Designs

• Sometimes portraits too

• Renaissance: Andrea del Sarto

• 15th CE

Renaissance Painting• Revival of Greek and Roman art• Emphasis on Naturalism• One point perspective• Foreshortening• For Churches as well as Private patrons• Human effort hardly visible• Good artist is someone who can create

optical illusion of space and leave no visible brush strokes

• Baroque Painting 17th CE

• Carravaggio

Baroque Painting

• Exaggeration

• Unusual Angels

• Focus on subjects like miracles and ecstasy

• Dramatic use of color and space

• Theatricality

• Dramatic use of light and shade

Mexican painting 8th CE

Ajanta Painting

5th CE

Ajanta Painting

• Buddhist themes

• Jatakas and themes from life of Buddha

• Focus on the expression of emotions

• Bhava very important

• Bold and lyrical lines

• Empahasis on details like ornaments, decoration on crown etc.

• Chinese Landscape painting

Chinese Landscape Painting 14th CE

• Emphasis on the feel of the painting

• Strong brushstrokes

• Minimum use of lines to bring out the character

• Detailed brushwork once the main form is established

• Meditative aspect

• Japanese Landscape Painting 14th CE

Japanese Painting

• Wash technique used in broad sweeps

• Japanese Art known for its wood cut printing technique

• Water based techniques

• Stylized subjects

• Poetic

• Importance of negative space

Jain Painting

Jain Painting• Beginning of Miniature tradition in India

• Painting along with text

• Calligraphy

• Flat

• Use of Primary colors esp red and blue

• Extended eye

• Stylized figures and patterns

• Composition based entirely on narrative

Moghul Painting

• Painting from Akbarnama 16th CE

Moghul Painting

• Book Art and Folios for Albums

• Illustrated books depicting the life and achievements of Mughal rulers

e.g. Akbarnama, Baburnama etc.

• Use of perspective

• Connection with West

• Influence of Persian and Chinese Painting

• Kangra Painting, 17th CE

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Pahari painting (Kangra Painting)

• Landscape of feeling

• Usually poetic themes

• Symbolism

• Use of tonal variations

Folk Painting: Some Examples

• Deeply engrained in the culture

• Usually Ritualistic

• All-over the world

• Pithora Painting

Warli painting

• Madhubani Painting

Australian aboriginal dot painting

Modern Painting

Impression Sunrise by Monet

• William De kooning

Frank Stella