Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka, circa 250 BCE. Sarnath Museum, near Varanasi, India
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Indian art consists of a variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, pottery, and textile arts such as woven silk. Geographically, it spans the entire Indian subcontinent, including what is now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan , and at times eastern Afghanistan. A strong sense of design is characteristic of Indian art and can be observed in its modern and traditional forms.
The origin of Indian art can be traced to prehistoric settlements in the 3rd millennium BCE. On its way to modern times, Indian art has had cultural influences, as well as religious influences such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and Islam. In spite of this complex mixture of religious traditions, generally, the prevailing artistic style at any time and place has been shared by the major religious groups.
In historic art, sculpture in stone and metal, mainly religious, has survived the Indian climate better than other media and provides most of the best remains. Many of the most important ancient finds that are not in carved stone come from the surrounding, drier regions rather than India itself. Indian funeral and philosophic traditions exclude grave goods, which is the main source of ancient art in other cultures.
Indian artist styles historically followed Indian religions out of the subcontinent, having an especially large influence in Tibet, South East Asia and China. Indian art has itself received influences at times, especially from Central Asia and Iran, and Europe.
the Western art world to non-Western art. Such major exhibitions included the Museum of Modern Art's 1935 Africa Negro Art and 1941 IndianArt of the United...
The Indian Society of Oriental Art was an art society founded in Calcutta in 1907. It organised art exhibitions, taught students, and published high-quality...
Hellenistic influence on Indianart and architecture reflects the artistic and architectural influence of the Greeks on Indianart following the conquests...
Museum, and Indian Museum, Kolkata. Outside India, Chola bronze sculptures are owned by the British Museum, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Norton...
Indian painting Indian painting has a very long tradition and history in Indianart. The earliest Indian paintings were the rock paintings of prehistoric...
Indian martial arts refers to the fighting systems of the Indian subcontinent. A variety of terms are used for the English phrases "Indian martial arts"...
Art of Mathura The Art of Mathura refers to a particular school of Indianart, almost entirely surviving in the form of sculpture, starting in the 2nd...
The Bengal School of Art, commonly referred as Bengal School, was an art movement and a style of Indian painting that originated in Bengal, primarily Kolkata...
Contemporary IndianArt was an exhibition held from September 18 – October 31, 1982 at The Royal Academy of Arts in London. The exhibition featured two...
namely Indianart, archaeology, anthropology, geology, zoology and economic botany. Many rare and unique specimens, both Indian and trans-Indian, relating...
after hearing about Usha's dream about him. The most glorious phase of Indianart spanned from the 4th-7th Centuries as seen in the delicate and exquisite...
paintings found in several caves and rock-cut temples of India. High-quality art with the help of tempera was created in Bagh Caves between the late 4th and...
art. Apart from clothing, truck art has also been incorporated into shoes by some. Farid Bawa, an Indian graphic designer, collaborates with Indian truck...
North Indianart for all the major religious groups. Gupta art is characterized by its "Classical decorum", in contrast to the subsequent Indian medieval...
that plays a central role in the art of Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. In Asian art, a lotus throne is a stylized lotus...
China, Japan, and Korea. South Asian art encompasses the arts of the Indian subcontinent, while Southeast Asian art includes the arts of Brunei, Cambodia...
Northeast India into the Indian subcontinent. They have been credited with shaping much of Indian philosophy, literature, architecture, art and music. Greater...
The modern Indianart movement in Indian painting is considered to have begun in Calcutta in the late nineteenth century. The old traditions of painting...
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Sangeeta (2017). Development of Modern Art Criticism in India after Independence: Post Independence IndianArt Criticism. Notion Press. ISBN 978-1-947697-31-7...
The Indian wolf (Canis lupus pallipes) is a subspecies of gray wolf that ranges from Southwest Asia to the Indian subcontinent. It is intermediate in...
Ashtalakshmi, symbolise the eight sources of wealth. Lakshmi is depicted in Indianart as an elegantly dressed, prosperity-showering golden-coloured woman standing...
Indianart evolved with an emphasis on inducing special spiritual or philosophical states in the audience, or with representing them symbolically. The...
Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, influenced by Hellenistic artistic canons, and the more Indianart of Mathura. Kushan art follows the Hellenistic art of the Greco-Bactrian...
Mauryan art Mauryan art is art produced during the period of the Mauryan Empire, the first empire to rule over most of the Indian subcontinent, between...
(1983) "Ancient Indian costume", Art Heritage; Ghurye (1951) "Indian costume", Popular book depot (Bombay); Boulanger, Chantal; (1997) "Indian Sari - How to...
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