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Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 1 know that the first discovery of rock paintings was made in India in 1867–68 by an archaeologist, Archibold Carlleyle, twelve years before the disc...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 1 depicted are bulls, elephants, sambhars, gazelles, sheep, goats, horses, stylised humans, tridents, but rarely, vegetal motifs. But the richest pai...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 1 elephants, tigers, rhinos and boars besides stick-like human figures. A few are wash paintings but mostly they are filled with Reprint 2026-27 4 AN...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 1 sort of family life. In many of the rock-shelters we find hand prints, fist prints, and dots made by the fingertips. The artists of Bhimbetka used ...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 1 to be able to notice them from a distance. The paintings, though from the remote past, do not lack pictorial quality. Despite various limitations s...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 1 recalls the dancing scene from the Lakhudiyar rock painting found in Uttarakhand. Reprint 2026-27 PREHISTORICROCK PAINTINGS 7 The paintings of indi...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 1 these prehistoric paintings have been found? Prepare a report on different aspects of these paintings with pictures or line drawings. 5. In modern ...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 2 A RTS OF THE INDUS V ALLEY HE arts of the Indus Valley Civilisation emerged during T the second half of the third millennium BCE. The forms of art ...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 2 with a hole in the middle. The hair is parted in the middle, and a plain woven fillet is passed round the head. An armlet is worn on the right hand...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 2 the ages. Terracotta The Indus Valley people made terracotta images also but compared to the stone and bronze statues the terracotta representation...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 2 centre and animals around. This seal is generally identified as the Pashupati Seal by some scholars whereas some identify it as the female deity. T...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 2 vases decorated with geometric patterns in red, black, and green, rarely white and yellow. Incised ware is also rare and the incised decoration was...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 2 beads were made of two or more stones cemented together, some of stone with gold covers. Some were decorated by incising or painting and some had d...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 2 different materials. With the Indus Valley seals as a reference try to make seals with a different medium. Which are the animals that you would lik...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 3 A RTS OF THE M AURYAN PE R IO D IXTH century BCE marks the beginning of new S religious and social movements in the Gangetic valley in the form of ...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 3 existing pillars with capital figures were found at Basarah-Bakhira, LauriyaNandangarh and Rampurva in Bihar, Sankisa and Sarnath in Uttar Pradesh....
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 3 The rock-cut cave carved at Barabar hills near Gaya in Bihar is known as the Lomus Rishi cave. The facade of the cave is decorated with the semicir...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 3 BCE onwards, we get many inscriptional evidences mentioning donors and, at times, their profession. The pattern of patronage has been a very collec...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 3 and massive. The monumentality of the image is easily noticeable. The facial musculature of the lions is very strong. The inversed lines of the lip...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 3 25 The life-size standing image of a Yakshini holding a chauri (flywhisk) from Didargunj near modern Patna is another good example of the sculptura...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 3 the enclosing of the circumambulatory path with railings and sculptural decoration. There were numerous stupas constructed earlier but expansions o...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 3 in different forms of Buddhist art? What did these events symbolise? 4. What are the Jatakas? How do the Jatakas relate to Buddhism? Find out. Repr...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 4 P OST -M AURYAN T RENDS IN I NDIAN A RT AND A RCHITECTURE ROM the second century BCE onwards, various rulers F established their control over the v...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 4 the picture surface, projection of hands and feet was not possible, hence, the folded hands and awkward position of the feet. There is a general st...
Class XI Fine Art An Introduction to Indian A... 4 various parts of the country, regional stylistic variations also began to emerge. One main characteristic in all the male images of first–second ce...