Portfolio - Indian Miniature Paintings

Author: DaljeetR K Duttagupta/Photographer: R K DuttaguptaPublisher: National MuseumYear: 2000Language: EnglishPages: 18ISBN/UPC (if available): N/A DescriptionIndian paintings, most of what the Indian artist created during a period of some six hundred years from fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, are miniatures as regards the length and width of their canvas. These paintings are acknowledged in the entire art world as a class by themselves. What distinguishes them from other paintings save the size of their canvas, is difficult to underline but it is as much easy to feel that they are endowed with a kind of distinctiveness, the unique power to emotionally moved, something very special which belongs to only them.Indian miniatures little incline to be mystic, or to use an intricate symbolism for revealing something like an intrinsic meaning, or aspect, but its strength lies in the directness of its expression, a kind of transparency wherein lines, forms or colours are not allowed to co