Paintings are documents of History

Bharatbhai R Pandya shared Riffat Iqbal Khan's photo.courtesy Ms  Munira Surati

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Riffat Iqbal Khan

Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847_1928)

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  Akmal Hussain Very beautiful piece.

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  Bharatbhai R Pandya Very few of this sort can be found, that much I can say from my limited contact with the art. But friends, what do we see in the paintings of this like ? The first point we may come across would be the timing. Some paintings have taken long time to draw. The painters mention the dates of beginning and completion of the painting. The artist have some pre-viewed plan, for say in old times cameras were not there , but the artists were there. The kings of Europe used to employ painters in their Courts , the artists saw, kept a mental note of the incidents and then posted the incidents on paper or any material available. The paintings of 400 800 yrs we see are of this type and they are invaluable. As the paintings give us the idea how the King looked, what dress he and his courtiers wore, the ornaments, sword,other weapons kept by them or lying near about them give us an idea of the physique, dress code, customs,weaponry, personal or family life, or the life of the general public. ----------- The scenes of the living habitat give us an idea how they lived, in this painting the floor of the house show the people were rather lazy in keeping the floor clean or even, The loom the woman is working on show that for their livelihood, they had to undertake some economic activity in the house itself ( I have seen such sancha in my neighborhood, some 60/65 years ago when an old man was working on the sancha , he dug a pit in the house , sat with legs hanging in order to give push to the string and the sancha would start working.. He had no other tool to sit on , everything was in the house of 12 x 16 ' and that was their personal or family life. and yet they produced children and lived a family consisting of 5/6 persons . that was the social life of an ordinary Indian those days. There was no enough space in the house, -------- We see the happiness or sadness on the faces of the persons painted, see the young girl standing her face suggests that she has no pleasure of life, but the young one seems to be of newly wed and is full of enthusism for life , her dress suggests and the middle age woman seems to eke out livelihood and is busy operating the loom. ---- Such things be marked and studied and when you happen to visit some Painting Exhibition keep a camera with you and shoot such pictures. Even on facebook Ms Munira Surati posts number of such paintings which are lije priceless treasures , such pictures should be saved in the camera , black and white or colored copies should be taken out from Cyber cafes and stored. The artists are not only painting the scenes , they are preserving the history, the old painters are worth historians and so be respected.

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