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Posted in Uncategorized on 09/14/2009 04:56 am by admin
Indian Miniatures – Phad, Kangra, Deccan paintings and Pahadi
Phad painting is a popular style of painting popular. The painting in this style is made on a piece of cloth. This is one style of painting practiced in northern India since time immemorial. Themes of these paintings are the representation deities and their stories, including stories of leaders in Rajasthan.
Phad is a type of scroll painting. Artists paint these paintings on a long cloth, the cloth is generally two types of lengths, from five feet, thirty feet long. They used bright colors and subtle, mostly from vegetables and locally available materials. The style of execution of the Phad painting is also unique. First they draw the outlines of paintings executed in several blocks. Then, these blocks are filled with different colors.
It is interesting to note that the traditional art of painting Phad is a type of popular paintings, especially practiced by artists who barely get sponsorship for their works. But it is still attached with and popular among the mass of people. Because the subjects of these paintings revolve around either the heroic or mythological stories.
There are sects or castes, especially among people in Rajasthan, whose family occupation is to entertain people by singing folk songs of heroes in public programs. These folk singers use works of art made by artists Phad. The paintings of Gods and Goddesses are used by these singers and worshipers temples mobile. Maintain a table in front of a crowd of people, they start singing and telling effects painted on the parchment.
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