kangra painting

He is remembered as a patron of the arts, and the Kangra paintings.

Kangra paintings are known for the lyrical blending of form and color.

Haripur was famous as the cradle of the Kangra paintings.

Famous Kangra paintings dates back to the era only.

Some of the temples are a piece of great architecture and Kangra paintings.

Kangra paintings depict the feminine charm in a very graceful manner.

He also started collecting the invaluable Kangra paintings.

One striking feature of Kangra paintings is the verdant greenery it depicts.

It is Guler which is the birthplace of Kangra paintings.

Later Kangra paintings also depicted nocturnal scenes, and storms and lightning.

The focal theme of Kangra painting is Shringar (the erotic sentiment).

The subjects seen in Kangra painting exhibit the taste and the traits of the life style of the society of that period.

It also runs a workshop where genuine Kangra Paintings are made on traditional handmade paper using only mineral and vegetable colours.

The Kangra paintings feature flowering plants and creepers, leafless trees, rivulets and brooks.

Kangra Painting, by William George Archer.

Kangra paintings belong to the school of Pahari paintings that were patronized by the Rajput rulers between the 17th and 19th centuries.

Kangra Paintings of the Bihari Sat Sai by M. S. Randhawa.

Many of the invaluable Kangra paintings were collected by erstwhile commissioner E.N.Mangatrai and some were returned to the museum in Chandigrah.

Kangra paintings influenced by the Bhagavad Purana portrayed incidents from the life of the young Krishna, against the Brindavan forest or river Yamuna.

Some notable collections include Basohli and Kangra paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as, a collection of Rumāls from the 7th century onward.

Kangra painting is the pictorial art of Kangra, named after Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, a former princely state, which patronized the art.

Though the main centre of Kangra paintings are Guler, Basohli, Chamba, Nurpur, Bilaspur and Kangra.

Basohli is widely known for its paintings called Basohli paintings, which are considered the first school of Pahari paintings, and which evolved into the much prolific Kangra paintings school by mid-eighteenth century.

It became prevalent with the fading of Basohli school of painting in mid-18th century, and soon produced such a magnitude in paintings both in content as well as volume, that the Pahari painting school, came to be known as Kangra paintings.