REFLECTIONS OF MINIATURE PAINTING IN INDIAN CULTURE; A COGNITIVE STUDY

Nature is the best known artist. In nature’s creation we see forms, but there is no out-line. The line is created by an artist. Miniature painting is an art of line. Miniature painting formally came to be known as a technique in the 17th Century AD, though it started its ovulation in the 9th century AD on palm leaves. Popularly painted subjects depicted court scenes, mythology and folklore under patronage of Indian maharajas, Indian Miniature painting, took an interesting twist under the colonial patronage from 1860s, with depiction of the common person and their life. Visually there was an amalgam of east and west, addition to a plain dull background in certain drawings. Bazaar art too gained a lot of popularity with the masses post partition in 1947. The focus and concern of my research is & quot;Towards a Practice-based study of miniature and calligraphic Lines from the ancient art of miniature painting to contemporary times is ; based on the completion of my practice-based National Fellowship, & quot;Junior Research Fellowship for Outstanding Artist in the Field of Culture Archive" by the Ministry of Culture. It is s an extension of a self initiated research that started in late 2014.