Arts

Arts of  western India are treasure of ages and worth-while to Learn. India is known as the land which portrays cultural and traditional vibrancy through its conventional arts and crafts. Most importantly the people from 35 states and union territories sprawl across the country. They carry their own distinct cultural and traditional identities. In fact they showcase various forms of art of their native land. Every region in India has its own style and pattern of art. Undoubtedly this is known as folk art of that particular Region.

Learn more about range of Arts of North-East and East India, North India and South India.

More convincingly, apart from Folk art, Indian Tribes practice the varied forms of arts known as their tribal art.

In fact The folk and tribal arts of India are very ethnic and simple. They though being Simple are yet colorful and vibrant enough to speak volumes about the country’s rich heritage.

Let us move on to Virtual Tour of Traditional Arts of  Western India and explore much.

Traditional Arts  –

Arts of Western India is explored by the The Guide to Indian Tourism . The guide to Indian Tourism definitely makes you understand the Traditional Art of this western region of India. It is OUR MOTIVE.

Indian painting, also called Jaina Painting, a highly conservative style of Indian miniature painting . largely devoted to the illustration of Jaina religious texts of the 12th–16th century can be seen in the region of Gujarat.  These western regions of the subcontinent provide, in the form of manuscript illustrations, some of the oldest surviving examples of Indian painting. Most of these paintings are to be found in Jain texts, the earliest of which are dated to the twelfth century, though most are later. The caves of Ajanta and Ellora near District of Aurangabad are the belligerent examples

Arts of western India and Lord Krishna.

The Examples of manuscript painting dated to the fifteenth century accompany Hindu texts such as the Gita Govinda of Jayadeva, and the Bhagavata Purana. These texts detailing the life of Krishna were of great importance in the development of the cult of the God . More importantly during the period of Muslim control throughout the north of India. These illustrations show many of the basic and apparently innate characteristics of Indian painting. This  frequently occur in other regions and at other times, also.

Such characteristics include the background slabs of a single, bright, vibrant color, the lack of concern with perspective. The interest in the decorative possibilities of illustration, at the expense of the possibilities of realism. One scholar (Topsfield in Gray 1981) has named this style the Early Rajput style. On the southern edge of the Rajput kingdoms, in Malwa. This flat, decorative and brilliant style continued into the latter part of the seventeenth century. Elsewhere in Rajasthan, however, Mughal stylistic conceptions entered the canons of court painters almost a hundred years earlier.