Eastern Indian Painting

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint color or other medium to a surface. The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is also used outside of art as a common trade among craftsmen and builders. Paintings may have for their support such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, leaf, copper or concrete, and may incorporate multiple other materials including, clay, paper, gold leaf as well as objects.

Eastern Indian painting

Eastern Indian painting, also called Pala painting, Buddhist divinity school of painting that flourished in the 12th centuries in the area of what are modern Bengal and Bihar . Its alternative name, Pala, derives from the name of the ruling dynasty of the period. The style is confined almost exclusively to conventional illustration on palm leaves depicting the life of the Buddha and Buddhist divinities.

The style disappeared from eastern India after the conquest of the area by the Muslims in the late 12th century, but many of its features were preserved in Nepal. The style also influenced the art of Tibet, to a lesser extent that of Myanmar and possibly even that of Sri Lanka and Java. The widespread nature of the influence is partly explainable by the travel of pilgrims who visited the great Buddhist centres of eastern India and carried back to their homes portable icons such as paintings.

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint color or other medium to a surface. The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is also used outside of art as a common trade among craftsmen and builders. Paintings may have for their support such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, leaf, copper or concrete, and may incorporate multiple other materials including, clay, paper, gold leaf as well as objects.

Eastern Indian painting

Eastern Indian painting, also called Pala painting, Buddhist divinity school of painting that flourished in the 12th centuries in the area of what are modern Bengal and Bihar . Its alternative name, Pala, derives from the name of the ruling dynasty of the period. The style is confined almost exclusively to conventional illustration on palm leaves depicting the life of the Buddha and Buddhist divinities.

The style disappeared from eastern India after the conquest of the area by the Muslims in the late 12th century, but many of its features were preserved in Nepal. The style also influenced the art of Tibet, to a lesser extent that of Myanmar and possibly even that of Sri Lanka and Java. The widespread nature of the influence is partly explainable by the travel of pilgrims who visited the great Buddhist centres of eastern India and carried back to their homes portable icons such as paintings.