Course Overview: Indian Paintings (in Hindi)

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Rohit Dadhich

Moved by the charm of Nature around him, man has expressed his appreciation of it in the works of art produced by him. This goes back to a time when he was still primitive. Art had a soft influence on him. Indian paintings are one of the forms of Indian art. Indian paintings like India are vast, different, remarkable and unique. Be it the mural paintings of Ajanta, Ellora, the Buddhist palm leaf manuscripts, the Jain texts or the Mughal, Deccan and Kangra discipline of miniature painting. Indian paintings provide an aesthetic continuum that extends from the early civilization to the present day. Indian painting was exposed to Greco-Roman as well as Iranian and Chinese influences. Cave paintings in different parts of India bear are remarkable. The earliest paintings of the prehistoric age in the caves all over the world give us magnificent examples of the observant eyes. The prehistoric cave paintings in India give us a picture of life in those far-off days of the early man in India.