Different Kinds of Indian Art

Gond Paintings 

This form of tribal art is based on nature and wildlife. The paintings are geometrical and very brightly colored.

Kalamkari Paintings

The color scheme used is red, maroon and yellow. Their paintings mainly depict the Gods and a few animals.

Mughal Miniature Jahangir 

These paintings are mainly portraits of Jahangir itself. They're a lot similar in comparison to those of Akbar's. 

Malwa Paintings 

The use of the color red and yellow is very prominent. They portray scenarios in and around the palace.

Deccani Paintings 

The colors used are slightly dull in comparison to the rest. A lot of of dull greens are used.

Jaunpur Paintings 

These paintings are very architecture-based, and the colors used are not too bright. 

Shekawati Paintings

A lot of intricate designs and patterns are used. The use of the color maroon is very prominent. 

Bundi Paintings 

These paintings are based on dancing women with long, flowing skirts. 

Kishangarh Paintings 

These paintings depict humans - either singularly or as a couple. A lot of blues and greens are used. 

Mysore Paintings 

Attention to detail when it comes to human features and cloth patterns is seen. There's high usage of the colors red and gold. 

Tanjore Paintings 

These paintings depict different Hindu Gods. They all have plain-colored backgrounds and a lot of the color gold is used.

Jain Patachitra 

Use of bright colors is seen. All these paintings have framed patterns. Gods are depicted, and very intricate patterns are used.

Buddhist Thangka Paintings

Buddha is depicted in every painting. A lot of circular forms are used. There are vibrant colors used in every painting. 

Ajanta Vakataka Paintings 

These are cave paintings which portray human figures. Dull colors are used. 

Kerala Mural Paintings 

Intricate paintings with a lot of use of the color red. These paintings depict Gods. The human figures are very curvy. 

Odisha Pattachitra  Paintings

These paintings are bordered with intricate patterns and designs. 

Kalighat Paintings 

A very subtle color scheme is used. Most of the pictures comprise of female figures. The backgrounds are blank. 

Jamini Roy Paintings 

These pictures depict cartoon-like human figures. Dull colors are used in the paintings. 

Company Paintings 

These are very realistic looking paintings depicting scenes from olden times. Mild colors are used.

Gulam Mohammed Sheikh Paintings

These paintings are very vibrant and colorful. They're also very abstract. 

Bhupen Khakhar Paintings 

Modern art depicting men. The color blue is used a lot. 

Ramesh Kalkur

His paintings deal a lot with the human body. 

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Barbara Kruger and Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramovic and Barbara Kruger:

Both artists, though working with ‘body’ as their medium to express, had a very different approach to Art. While Barabara Kruger’s work is more like advertisements and about awakening and spreading awareness among the viewers, Marina Abramovic is one who literally feels physically and learns along with the spectators of her art. 

Barabara Kruger’s work is appealing to the eye, her pieces are attractive and once observed, they do leave an impact on the viewer. The pure irony of the situations she depicts and the boldness of the red text over a black and white picture, her signature style is stunning. 

Marina Abramovic’s art is more experimental, it’s like he’s conducting a live social experiment where both she and the audience or subjects of her art learn. She is extremely passionate about this, we can tell, as she endures all the pain both physical and emotional that she experiences with these experiments and still carries on to do more.

                                                                By: Barbara Kruger 

 By: Marina Abramovic

The Modern Goddess

My version of God isn’t really in a physical form. But if asked to give him/her a body, I’d depict it in a simple cartoon sketch like this. I’ve only kept the red bindi on her ‘third eye’ as a symbol of the Indian culture that I belong to, and the long robes are because I’ve always, even as a child, imagined God to be in Big swishy robes that are fur-lined. The Ice Queen, a character from Narnia is the closest I can get to help my viewers visualise it.

Below are images given of a common painting of an Indian Goddess and next to it, an image of the Ice Queen from Narnia.

                   

How Art Made the World - More Human Than Human

The BBC documentary I watched covered how art over the ages has impacted the way we think and how we define an ideal or perfect body. 

In the first segment, the Venus of Willendorf was covered. It's a small figurine of a lady, carved out of stone. The features are rather questionable because many features are over-exaggerated. For example, the breasts and the stomach are enlarged to an impossible extent. 

In the second segment, they covered the artwork done during the Egyptian civilization. The human figures are exaggerated in a weird way- the fingers are all of the same length and the eyes are way too much towards the side. 

In the third segment they covered the sculptures made of the Gods during the Greek Civilization. They were very muscular and the men tried to build  themselves in that way to equate themselves to the Gods and attain Godliness. 

To conclude, I feel that expectations of the body being perfect has been an age old thing, and the ideas have definitely impacted the way we think these days.