Indian Art Flashcards
Gitanjali
Rabindranath Tagore
Ajanta paintings
inspired/related/depicts
Buddha
Ancient Indian Art
inspired by
religion
Bharat Muni described
Rasa in his Natyashastra
Rasa Theory
The theory of Rasa-Bhava establishes a relationship between the performer and the spectator. The model spectator is a Sahrdaya, someone ‘who empathizes with the author.’ Since the success of a performance is measured by whether or not the audience has a specific experience (rasa), the spectator becomes a vital participant in the play.
Bharata calls human soul as Bhava-Jagat (the world of emotions). Bharata and later authors explain how the Art universalizes emotions making them an instrument of appeal to the spectators. They say that the actor acts as bearer, media and connector of emotions of the character. By conveying emotions the actor step by step opens inner Bhava-Jagat of the character, creates special emotional atmosphere, which can be felt and relished. The actor introduces and involves the spectators into this emotional atmosphere. Thus, emotions of the character are spread through the actor to spectators, who share them collectively, as a group, by relishing the Rasa. Thus emotions are embodied and translated from one person to many.
Bharata devotes the sixth chapter of his classical work Natya Shastra, to an in depth analysis of the concept of Rasa. It is in this chapter that we find the famous ‘Rasa Sutra.’ The awareness of the emotions has to be elicited in the minds of the spectator for them to relish it. The Rasa Sutra summarizes the factors in art construction that leads to relishing of the Rasa. Bharata very emphatically states in the Rasadhyaya of Natyashastra that “na hi Rasad rite kaschid arthah pravartate“ “no meaningful idea is conveyed if the “Rasa” is not evoked.The very core of the Bharata’s Natya theory is the creation of “Rasa“.
Wash technique discovered by
india
Abanindranath Tagore
Ajanta caves
number of caves
29-30
Main Subject of Raja Ravi Varma’s paintings
Hindu Mythology
Shantiniketan
location
West Bengal
Main centre of Pahari School of art
Kangra
Rajasthani Paintings
Type of colors used for
Tempera Colors
Kishangarh
(type of painting)includes what painting
Bani Thani
Kishangarh style
Miniature paintings related to rajasthan
Bani Thani
painted by
Nihal Chand
1st printing machine in India
invented when and where
1556, Goa
Madhubani paintings
originates from
Bihar
Shree Ram Janam Bhumi
located where
Ram Janmabhoomi is the site that, according to Hindu religious beliefs, is the birthplace of Rama, the seventh avatar of the Hindu deity Vishnu.
Ayodhya
place
The Ramayana states that the location of Rama’s birthplace is on the banks of the Sarayu river in a city called “Ayodhya”. Modern-day Ayodhya is in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is contested whether the Ayodhya mentioned in the Ramayana is the same as the modern city.
National Gallery of Modern Art
located where
Delhi
Taj Mahal
commissioned by
Shah Jahan
Taj Mahal
where
Agra
G. R. Santosh
related to
Tantrik Art
M. F. Hussain
known for
painting horses
Dhanraj Bhagat
famous Sculptor (???)
Abanindranath Tagore
Prominent painter of Bengal School
first newspaper printed in
India
Calcutta
First Indian newspaper
Bengal Gazette
Sare Jahan se Accha
written by
Muhammad Iqbal
R. K. Laxman
Famous Cartoonist
Bismillah Khan
Shahnai player
J. J. School of Art
where
Mumbai
Warli folk painting
originated in Maharashtra
Pulp print series called ‘Wounds’
created by
Somnath Hore
Architect of Taj Mahal
Ustad Ahmad Lahouri
Bihu
folk dance of Assam
Saffron in Indian flag symbolises
sacrifice and courage
Death of Shah Jahan
painted by
Abanindranath Tagore
Bharat Mata
painted by
Abanindranath Tagore
Ram Kinkar Baij
well known sculptor
Raja Ravi Varma
father of Indian Modern Art
Jahangir’s time best artists of ‘Birds’
Mansoor
Famous rock cut temple
located in Ellora, named “Kailashnath temple”
