Miniature Painting Rajansthani paintings are mostly executed on paper,
in the form of illustrations to manuscript, for individual
works meant to be mounted on boards or in albums. The painter
use glazed or unglazed handmade papers
The small state of Kishangarh
on Jaipur-Ajmer highway developed its own highly original
and remarkable style of painting. Ethereal beauties in transparent
drapes, with large dreamy eyes, long necks, cloud like hair
drawn in wire thin lines of great power and sauvity, are painted
in mute, subdued colours by the Kishangarh painters. The desert
state of Bikaner patronized a style, which was a direct derivative
of the mugal style. In Jodhpur, the vista was very different
with a strong folk idiom already in existance. Vigorous males
with extra-ordinary turbans and dainty ladies painted with
bold strokes of lines and colours, riding on galloping hourses
and caparisoned camels, as in the painting of Dhola-Maru,
dominate the paintings of the Marwar region.
Pichwai Paintings In western India, paintings of deities on cloth are
known as Pichwais. Amongst the religious pads, the most famous
is of Srinathji (Krishna) in Nathdwara temple near Udaipur
in Rajasthan, known as pichwai. Pichwais are also made in
Bhilwara and Shahpur in Rajasthan.
Phad Paintings
Phad painting is a painting used to narrate the story sketched
in a particular sequence on a cloth. The singers of a particular
community narrate the whole story sketched on various occasions.
Famous stories depicted in phad paintings are battle of Haldi
Ghati, stories of Hadi Rani, Amer Singh Rathore, and Gaura
Badal etc.
