Basohli Painting

Basohli Painting

Basohli, a town of Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir state of India, is widely known for its paintings called Basohli Paintings.

Immortalised by their artistic eminences and their connoisseur patrons, Basohli today is a metaphor for a vigorous, bold and imaginative artistic style, rich, stylish and unconventional. A style of painting characterized by vigorous use of primary colours and a peculiar facial formula prevailed in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in the foothills of the Western Himalayas in the Jammu and Punjab States. The earliest paintings in this style have been dated to the time of Raja Kirpal Pal (1678-93) A Review of Basohli Style in Indian Painting, Chandramani Singh, Kailash - Journal of Himalayan Studies vol 2, Number 1&2, 1974 [http://www.thdl.org/texts/reprints/kailash/kailash_02_0102_reviews.pdf] ] .

Originating in Basohli, the style spread to the Hill States of Mankot, Nurpur, Kulu, Mandi, Suket, Bilaspur, Nalagarh, Chamba, Guler and Kangra. The first mention of Basohli painting is in the annual report of the Archaeological Survey of India for the year published in 1921. Referring to the acquisitions of the Archaeological Section of the Central Museum, Lahore, the report states that "a series of old paintings of the Basohli School were purchased, and the Curator concludes that the Basohli Schools is possibly of pre-Moghul origin, and so called Tibeti pictures are nothing but late productions of this school".

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*cite book |last=Martin-Dubost |first=Paul |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Gaņeśa: The Enchanter of the Three Worlds |year=1997 |publisher=Project for Indian Cultural Studies |location=Mumbai |isbn= 81-900184-3-4

External links

* [http://chdmuseum.nic.in/art_gallery/indian_miniature_painting.html Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh, India]
* [http://kathua.nic.in/thumb/basohlipaints.htm Official Kathua website on Basohli Paintings]


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