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Unlike dance and music where the most attractive modes and sweetest strains disappear before they are understood, painting captures the emotions and appearances and retains the impact for a long period. Painting is an essentially a combination of lines, forms, colors, tones, texture and space. It attempts to convey the spoken and unspoken appearances with the strokes of a brush.

Painting styles differ from regions to regions, and from periodto period. From prehistoric times to the period of civilizations, painting has been the visual documentation of man’s thoughts, and experiences. It has illustrated the walls of the caves, temples, and palaces, or dried leaved and cloth in the form of phadas, patachitras and coverlets.

Illustrated manuscripts in palm leaf folios in the medieval period were later replaced by paper. The painting of any given region and period provides an insight to the cerebral and cultural sensibilities of the people who executed them. The styles are influenced by the local traditions and cross-cultural interaction.

Like any other country, these factors were true for India too. Besides these, the unique geographical positioning of India, played a significant role in the flowering of distinct regional styles. The multihued painting traditions, which developed like the murals, Chaurapanchasika, miniatures, scroll painting, madhubani, lepakshi, etc contributed to the cultural legacy of India and laid the foundation of successive genres.Ethnicpaintings brings to you the varied painting styles from the treasure trove of India.They have their distinct painting style, regional and periodic characteristics. Browse through them and experience India in its arts.