Pahari painting

Pahari painting

Pahari painting (literal meaning a painting from the mountainous regions, "pahar" means a mountain in Hindi) is a form of Indian painting, done mostly in miniature forms [ [http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/art/pahari.htm Pahari] ] .

Origin and area

Pahari school developed and flourished during 17th-19th centuries stretching from Jammu to Almora, in the sub-Himalayan India, through Himachal Pradesh, and each creating stark variations within th egenra, ranging from bold intense Basohli Painting to the delicate and lyrical Kangra paintings.

It gave birth to a new idiom in Indian painting, and grew out of the Mughal painting, though this was patronized mostly by the Rajput kings who ruled many parts of the region [ [http://www.culturopedia.com/Painting/pahari.html Pahari] ] .

chools of Pahari painting

* Guler School
* Kangra School
* Basohli School
* Chamba School [ [http://www.culturenorthindia.com/hp/fine_arts.htm Pahari Paintings] ] [ [http://www.dalhousie.net/paharipaintings.htm Pahari paintings] ]

Further reading

* "Pahari Masters: Court Painters of Northern India" by B. N. Goswamy and Eberhard Fischer Artibus Asiae. Supplementum, Vol. 38, Pahari Masters: Court Painters of Northern India (1992), pp. 3-391 [http://www.jstor.org/pss/1522698]

References

ee also

*Indian painting
*Madhubani painting
*Mughal painting


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