15 Facts About Indian painting

Indian painting has a very long tradition and history in Indian art, though because of the climatic conditions very few early examples survive.

Mughal painting is a style of Indian painting, generally confined to illustrations on the book and done in miniatures, and which emerged, developed and took shape during the period of the Mughal Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries.

The Mughal style was heavily influenced by Persian miniatures, and in turn influenced several Indian styles, including the Rajput, Pahari and Deccan styles of painting.

Indian painting was the first monarch who established in India an atelier under the supervision of two Persian master artists, Mir Sayyed Ali and Abdus Samad.

Deccan Indian painting was produced in the Deccan region of Central India, in the various Muslim capitals of the Deccan sultanates that emerged from the break-up of the Bahmani Sultanate by 1520.

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Several different styles of Rajput Indian painting developed from the late 16th century onwards in the Hindu royal courts of Rajputana.

Pahari Indian painting is the northernmost extension of the Rajput style, but usually treated separately.

Mysore painting is an important form of classical South Indian painting that originated in the town of Mysore in Karnataka.

That old tradition of Oriya Indian painting still survives to-day in the skilled hands of Chitrakaras in Puri, Raghurajpur, Paralakhemundi, Chikiti and Sonepur.

Madhubani Indian painting is a style of Indian painting, practiced in the Mithila region of Bihar state.

At the start of the 18th century, oil and easel Indian painting began in India, which saw many European artists, such as Zoffany, Kettle, Hodges, Thomas and William Daniell, Joshua Reynolds, Emily Eden and George Chinnery coming out to India in search of fame and fortune.

Indian painting drew on Western traditions and techniques including oil paint and easel painting, with his subjects being purely Indian, such as Hindu deities and episodes from the epics and Puranas.

Reaction to the Western influence led to a revival in historic and more nationalistic Indian painting art, called as the Bengal school of art, which drew from the rich cultural heritage of India.

Indian painting's best-known painting, Bharat Mata, depicted a young woman, portrayed with four arms in the manner of Hindu deities, holding objects symbolic of India's national aspirations.

Indian painting Art got a boost with the economic liberalization of the country since the early 1990s.