The Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state of India are about 29 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BC to about 480 or 650 CE. The caves include paintings and rock cut sculptures described as among the finest surviving examples of ancient Indian art, particularly expressive paintings that present emotion through gesture, pose and form. According to UNESCO, these are masterpieces […]
The importance of the palace lies in its mural paintings which belong to an exclusive school of artists, whose technique and workmanship is considerably different from the other schools of Indian art. These murals are in the best tradition of the Hindu art, religious, decorative and stylized. They are painted in rich, warm colours and […]
The glory of the palace rests on the large number of murals, executed in the best traditions of Hindu temple art, which are religious, decorative and stylised. The murals have been painted in rich warm colours in tempera technique The king’s bedchamber or Palliyara, to the left of the entrance and occupying the southwest corner […]
The importance of the palace lies in its mural paintings which belong to an exclusive school of artists,whose technique and workmanship is considerably different from the other schools of Indian art. These murals are in the best tradition of the Hindu art, religious, decorative and stylized. They are painted in rich, warm […]
The Palace was built and gifted by the Portuguese as a present to the Raja of Cochin around 1555. The Dutch carried out some extensions and renovations in the palace in 1663, and thereafter it was popularly called Dutch Palace. The rajas also made more improvements to it. Today, it is a portrait gallery of the […]
The museum is housed in a palace which is on of the oldest buildings of the Portuguese in the oriental style. Unique form the historical and architectural point of view. This was build around 1555 A.D. by the Portuguese and presented to vira kerala varma in order to pacify him and to compensate having blunder […]
For quite some time Kala Bhavana student Vishnu, under the tutelage of Nanda Dulal Mukherjee is engaged with wall painting a portion of Kalobari, following the earlier techniques used. After a few failures where the painted portions simply peeled off, Vishnu has ultimately succeeded after due modification of techniques applied; providing him with an […]
The artist shown in the video is the making yellow colour for mural painting. The colour is made by grinding a kind of yellow coloured stone. Mural painters in Kerala follow traditional practices for the making of colours. A notable feature is that all the colours are derived from nature and no artificial colour is […]
Sarang Cultural Ventures conducted a Mural Painting Workshop at M.G Road, Bangalore from 8th April to 14th April. It primarily aims is at propagation and exchange of different cultures. In today’s increasingly violent world, an understanding and acceptance of different cultures is the only way to peaceful co-existence. Also, the existence and growth of any […]
Unique Kerala Mural Painting being done by Vishnu using natural color made by himself. Searching for the roots of murals in Kerala takes us back in to the 7th, 8th centuries. They function as a sort of ‘dynamic theater stills’, elucidating characters and episodes, preserving a whole lot of traditions always in communion with the […]