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Aipan art drawn on the entrance of a house. Aipan (Kumaoni: Ēpaṇ) is an established-ritualistic folk art originating from Kumaon in the Indian Himalayas. The art is done mainly during special occasions, household ceremonies and rituals. Practitioners believe that it invokes a divine power which brings about good fortune and deters evil. [1]
[3] [4] [2] [5] It also includes an art gallery encouraging younger generation of artists to exhibit modern and contemporary art. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] The museum is located in one of the Earthquake zones of India and is housed in a specially constructed building to withstand high intensity earthquake and extreme weather conditions.
The Lakhudiyar Caves are located in the Barechhina village at the banks of the Suyal River in the Almora district of Uttarakhand. On the walls of the caves are paintings depicting animals, humans and also tectiforms, created with fingers in black, red and white. There are also a few animal motifs, one of them closely resembling a fox.
He continued to work for the development of art and literature during the period of the Gorkha rule (1803–15) and the British rule over Garhwal. [ 6 ] Mola Ram himself initially painted in the Mughal style until visiting Kangra , [ 8 ] e.g. his painting Mastani is in the Mughal idiom, [ 9 ] while his later paintings, e.g. Vasakasajja Nayika ...
Yashodhar Mathpal (born 1939) is an Indian archaeologist, painter, curator, Gandhian and Rock art conservationist. He is most known for his study of cave art, especially in Bhimbetka rock shelters, Barechhina (Uttarakhand) and Kerala.
Svetlana Petrova reinterprets famous art pieces by incorporating her silly cat pictures. The artist started by adding her orange cat Zarathustra, but now she has two other cats, David Bowie and ...
Openclipart, also called Open Clip Art Library, is an online media repository of free-content vector clip art.The project hosts over 160,000 free graphics and has billed itself as "the largest community of artists making the best free original clipart for you to use for absolutely any reason".
Radha-Krishna theme, from the Gita Govinda in Pahari style, Garhwal sub-school. Pahari painting (lit. ' a painting from the mountainous regions, pahar meaning a mountain in Hindi ') is an umbrella term used for a form of Indian painting, done mostly in miniature forms, originating from the lower Himalayan hill kingdoms of North India, during the early 17th to mid 19th century, notably Basohli ...