Desicritics Comments on Miniature Paintings - Small is Beautiful

Comment by lieben

Thu, 5 Mar 2009 00:29:32 EST

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Comment by lieben

Thu, 5 Mar 2009 00:28:54 EST

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Comment by Deepa Krishnan

Mon, 8 Oct 2007 12:21:47 EDT

Temporal, among other styles that I like is Basholi. The painting of Radha removing her anklets is Basholi. They use beetle wings to show emeralds. - Deepa

Comment by Deepa Krishnan

Mon, 8 Oct 2007 07:28:14 EDT

Have you read Ismat Chugtai's "The Quilt"? The lesbian maid is dark-skinned, her mistress fair. http://media.opencultures.net/queer/data/indian/Lihaaf_or_The_Quilt.htm I watched Naseeruddin Shah's Manto Ismat Haazir Hai recently, so this is top of mind :)

Comment by annamma

Mon, 8 Oct 2007 06:41:49 EDT

The national museum has a great collection. Would take ages to appreciate them all. An observation, from the ones you put up, and also others I have seen: the attendants are always shown as noticeably darker-skinned. The Varna (caste/ colour) system was really in place in rajasthan, I guess.

Comment by temporal

Sun, 7 Oct 2007 13:34:53 EDT

deepa: my introduction to miniature painting came by accident...an uncle presented me a limited addition book muraqqa e chughtai - an illustrated diwaan e ghalib the persian miniatures came to india by way of mughals and then it flourished and developed under different schools - you have mentioned seven schools of mughal miniatures in rajhastan ....and there are more in schools - madhubani, mughal, mysore, tanjore and bengal! like the egyptian papyrus repros, i have seen miniature repros in the most unlikely places:)