Archive for Author: folkindi

Contemporary Art: Development Of Art Forms

During 18th century Indian culture started to take its own from and a new development of art forms are also started showing. With this establishment, came collaborations. Contemporary art leads to a lot of collaborations and this became more frequent for Chinese and Indian artist. There was a change...

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Company Art :Company Style Of Paintings Became Common

The Company style of paintings became common, created by Indian artists working for European patrons of the East India Company. British colonial rule had a great impact on Indian art. Indian artists welcomed the opportunity to work for their new British patrons, especially because the traditional patronage of Indian...

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Ajanta Cave Temples (200BC-600AD)

Jawahar Lal Nehru once said “Ajanta takes us back into some distant dream like but a very real past”. Ajanta rock art is a combination of three arts – architecture, sculpture and painting. Buddhist monks excavated rocks to form these caves for praying, for meditation and for residing. The...

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