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Class 12

Fine Art: An Introduction to Indian Art Part II

43 lessons in 8 chapters, explained in plain words.

The Manuscript Painting Tradition

  1. Canons of painting and the manuscript tradition
  2. The Western Indian (Jain) School
  3. Indigenous and Sultanate styles
  4. The Pala School

The Rajasthani Schools of Painting

  1. What the Rajasthani schools are and how they painted
  2. Themes: texts, ragas and tales
  3. Malwa and Mewar
  4. Bundi and Kota
  5. Bikaner and Kishangarh
  6. Jodhpur and Jaipur

The Mughal School of Miniature Painting

  1. What made Mughal painting
  2. Babur and Humayun
  3. Akbar's atelier
  4. Jahangir: naturalism and albums
  5. Shah Jahan, Dara Shikoh and the later Mughals
  6. How a Mughal painting was made

The Deccani Schools of Painting

  1. What Deccani painting is
  2. Ahmadnagar
  3. Bijapur
  4. Golconda
  5. Later Deccani painting

The Pahari Schools of Painting

  1. What Pahari painting is
  2. Basohli and Kullu
  3. Guler: Seu, Manaku and Nainsukh
  4. Kangra under Sansar Chand
  5. Favourite Pahari themes
  6. Other hill centres

The Bengal School and Cultural Nationalism

  1. Company painting and Raja Ravi Varma
  2. Abanindranath, Havell and the Bengal School
  3. Shantiniketan, Nandalal Bose and Jamini Roy
  4. Pan-Asianism and modernism

The Modern Indian Art

  1. Early modernism in India
  2. The Calcutta Group and political art
  3. The Progressives and abstraction
  4. Manifestos and the meaning of modern Indian art
  5. New figurative and narrative art
  6. New media art from the 1990s
  7. Modern Indian sculpture

The Living Art Traditions of India

  1. Living art traditions
  2. Mithila and Warli painting
  3. Gond and Pithoro painting
  4. Scroll paintings: patas and phads
  5. Dhokra and terracotta