Indian Styles of Paintings
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- 3. A style religious scroll painting and folk painting, practised in Rajasthan state of India.
- 5. A style of tribal art mostly created by the tribal people from the North Sahyadri Range in India.
- 6. Also called Rajasthani painting, these evolved and flourished in the royal courts of Rajputana in northern India.
- 8. A style of painting, confined mainly to book illustration and the production of individual miniatures, that evolved in India during the reigns of the Mughal emperors.
- 9. A style of Indian painting, practised in the Mithila region of the Indian subcontinent.
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- 1. An important form of classical South Indian painting that originated in and around the town of Mysore in Karnataka.
- 2. The word comes from the Dravidian expression, Kond which means 'the green mountain'. A form of painting from folk and tribal art that is practised by one of the largest tribes in India with whom it shares its name.
- 3. Mewar-style textile paintings that are found hanging on the walls of temples, houses, art galleries and museums, specifically Nathdwara temple from where they were first originated.
- 4. The class of paintings and drawings on hand-made or more usually on machine-made paper produced by a group of artists called 'Patua' in the neighbourhood of the famous Kali temple at Kalighat.
- 7. A style of miniature painting and book illustration that developed in the independent states of the Himalayan foothills in India.