Painting in India

Pre-historic paintings are found in Madhya Pradesh in the caves of Bhimbetka. Musical instruments like harp are featured in these paintings, which shows the appearance of music and sound in civilization. Mesolithic paintings are geometric forms like rhomboid, circle, square and spiral.

The Harappan paintings speak of the prosperous Indus Valley Civilization. Firstly, the figures were half-animal and half-human. The Ajanta Caves and Ellora Caves are the examples of exquisite paintings of early chistian era.

The Gupta rulers patronized art and painting greatly. The Pallavas and Cholas left behind majestic remnants of ppaintings. Indian painting today is a diverse field, absorbing both indigenous influences and international influences like cubism, surrealism, magic realism and others.

The mural paintings are carved on solid bases and miniature paintings are on papers or cloth.

Some of the traditional forms of paintings in India are Bengali painting, Tanjore painting, Mysore painting, Mughal painting, rajput painting, Madhubani painting and Miniature painting. Some of the famous Indian painters are B.G. Sharma, Tyeb Mehta, Sunil Das, Jainul Abedin, Jamini Roy, MF Hussain, Geta Vadhera, Bikash Bhattacharya, Ramkinker Baij, Hemen Majumdar and other painters.

Indian painting is an aesthetic continuation extending from time immemorial to the present. Steeped in the cultural diversity and traditional enigma of India Indian painting has been enriched through ages..