PAINTINGS

Within Rajasthan, several schools of art flourish. Rajasthani art can be seen on the frescoed walls of Shekhawati. But if you want to take a painting home, you can choose from miniatures, phad paintings, pichwais and even paintings done on marble. Some paintings available for sale are painted on paper many centuries old. Gem-dust and gold are ingeniously employed to add colours and luster to the paintings.

 

Miniature Painting

Rajasthani 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 suavity, 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 existence. Vigorous males with extra-ordinary turbans and dainty ladies painted with bold strokes of lines and colours, riding on galloping horses and caparisoned camels, as in the painting of Dhola-Maru, dominate the paintings of the Marwar region.

Pichwai And Phad 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 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.

Exclusive Paintings of Rajasthani Artist