g katyan misraさんのイラストまとめ

#TravelsInIndia
one man cart-bullock cart
frm https://t.co/DcPzzWE2kd

certainly invention of wheel is milestone in human evolution & History
hoping one day magnetic rail/loop may run, wheel will almost be forgotten?

Two nautch girls
Painting by Edwin Lord Weeks
All such painting are remarkable for details, he might have been a perfectionist. Observant eyes for minute details. Textile print design & colour reminds of rich cloth making skills of artisans weavers of India.
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I call it burden

Study of Two Figures
Oil painting by Edwin Lord Weeks, ca. 1878 at @metmuseum
He might have felt extreme amazement at this sight of woman whole covered! Just like Renaissance women's condition needed dawn for liberation

Gift of Kenneth Jay Lane, 2017

depicting Raja Balwant Singh's favourite elephant, with attendants.
painting by Nainsukh, at Jammu? ca.1750-55
pahari painting @V_and_A collection
Given by Miss Margaret W. Patterson

Bhisti
from James Skinner's album
company school painting
this seems the one who was employed to give drinking water to passengers, often they were at stations/bus or railway? pilgrimage points too

#covid19 enforced lockdown & such fares/melas on festivals banned, but hope unlocking with social distancing may help stop chain of infection
charak pûjâ
company painting, Calcutta 1798-1887?
festival of penance with fasting too, Bengal
hope people can enjoy again @V_and_A

Alliance of Ram & Sugriv
Pahari, Mankot painting 1710-25
pic at https://t.co/XvP1JSzJgX

similarity in Leather puppet of Karnataka and Paithan Chitrakatha or Chitrakathi paintings is also point of attraction
such traditional forms were prevalent for story telling, community or nobles patronized these art forms,
performed on special occasions or as ritual too

Babhruvahana & Mongoose fight Serpent Armies
Folio from Mahabharata
Paithan Chitrakatha, i am loving to use chitrakatha instead of painting
Folk Art/painting by folk artists who kept our traditions/heritage alive for centuries & remained unknown

@LACMA

Babhruvahana Surrenders d Sacrificial Horse Syamakarna to His Father Arjuna, Folio from Mahabharata, 1850 painting
Paithan Chitrakatha, Maharashtra, a art form of pictorial story telling, as is miniature painting @LACMA why to tag it as FOLK?
such treasures of OUGHT tob in India