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Barahmasa (lit. "the twelve months") is a poetic genre popular in the Indian subcontinent [1] [2] [3] derived primarily from the Indian folk tradition. [4] It is usually themed around a woman longing for her absent lover or husband, describing her own emotional state against the backdrop of passing seasonal and ritual events.
Ragini Todi. Mughal, c. 1750. Salar Jung Museum. In 1570, Kshemakarna, a priest of Rewa in Central India, compiled a poetic text on the Ragamala in Sanskrit, which describes six principal Ragas—Bhairava, Malakoshika, Hindola, Deepak, Shri, and Megha—each having five Raginis and eight Ragaputras, except Raga Shri, which has six Raginis and nine Ragaputras, thus making a Ragamala family of ...
Types of art techniques There is no exact definition of what constitutes art. Artists have explored many styles and have used many different techniques to create art. Artists have explored many styles and have used many different techniques to create art.
Xu Chongsi (徐崇嗣) during the Northern Song dynasty continued developing the technique from Huang, and his paintings were named Mogu-Tu (沒骨圖). Xu started applying this technique in shan shui painting. [citation needed] The technique gained popularity during the Late-Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty, and the most famous master would be ...
A freehand figure painting is a work of art with the primary subject being the human figures. The kind of figure painting is totally different from the realistic figure painting. The former concentrate more on infectious emotion, connotation and spirits of a figure and artistic conception rather than depict a vivid figure by using fine Brush ...
Underdrawing is a preparatory drawing done on a painting ground before paint is applied, [1] for example, an imprimatura or an underpainting. Underdrawing was used extensively by 15th century painters like Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden .
The village of Fedoskino (Федоскино), located not far from Moscow on the banks of the Ucha River, is the oldest of the four art centers of Russian lacquer miniature painting on papier-mâché, which has been practiced there since 1795.
Some Western painting techniques were adopted, such as perspective and shading, in a bid to move away from the importance of the painted line from East Asian painting tradition. Because of this tendency to synthesize, it has become increasingly difficult to draw a distinct separation in either techniques or materials between Nihonga and Yōga.