Sampoorn Kala Yatra

सम्पूर्ण कला यात्रा/
वैश्विक परिवेश में

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Art is like a horizon that has no end. It is so vast, so wide that it contains many genres in itself, only then did the poet’s
mind said-
‘Sahitya, sangeetah, kala viheenh, sakshat pashuh pukshchh vishaanheenh’
‘Literary Music Artless man is like true animals without tail’
Art is the most important of all efforts made by humans to attain happiness and knowledge.

Confluence of traditional and contemporary art – 2

ABSTRACT: During my various art writings, when I studied deeply the works of Ramkinkar Baij, Nandlal Basu,
Picasso, Henry Moore, and other eminent artists, I found that in these entire artist’s great artworks, there is the
contribution of traditional and tribal arts. Without becoming proficient in the arts that we inherit from tradition; when
we start diving in the ocean of modern art, then somewhere our art skills are left behind. Many times the artist himself
does not even know by which process he can make his artwork more impressive, so this article can give a vision to all
those students and artists also. Apart from all this, it is also my interest to do an in-depth study on this subject to
understand this topic more firmly because we cannot deny the importance of traditional art in the culture of a country,
but in such a situation contemporary art also serves to connect global cultures. Therefore, contemporary art frees an
artist from the shackles of time and space and elevates him to the heights of spirituality, making it even more important
for the artist to understand both.
At the same time, I see its separation from traditional art as the reason why contemporary art does not reach the hearts
of ordinary people. Thus because of realizing its importance from different aspects, I decided to write and create many
works of art on this subject.
KEYWORD(S): Visual Arts, Indian Traditional Art, Contemporary Arts, Art and Culture, Art Education
I. INTRODUCTION
This paper is discussing the combination and confluence of elements of contemporary art and various Indian arts. This
paper shows the need and importance of contemporary art along with the importance of tribal art in the Indian social
and cultural environment.
The art is carrier of Stya, Shiva, and Sundara, has importance in many ways in life. It makes us feel the fragrance of life
in the mechanical world and it is successful in giving that pleasure so that you can easily enter that unconscious mind
which is elaborately explained by the name of quantum physics or quantum mechanics.
Here we will go into a brief about the overall artistic history of India, which I have come to know through my academic
study of art so far; it is hardly possible to read it so comprehensively anywhere else. This will not only help you to
understand the artistic richness of India but perhaps also know how contemporary art has made its place in the world.
This paper also includes the Indian dimensions of the drawings of art.
II. ACCORDING TO INDIAN SCRIPTURES, THE RULES OF PAINTING
In the Natyashastra Bharata Muni clarified that “there is no such knowledge, no craft, no discipline, which is not art.”
“Art is a means of expressing the primordial being.” – Hegel
A complete scientific explanation of art and beauty has been given by Indians in Vedic culture as well; Like the human
body, how many Taal (measures) are there in the body of a woman and man, what aspects make the picture observable
in combination with an ideal picture, and the colour combination and their effects have been explained in an elemental
way. Be it the Khajuraho sculpture or the Iron Pillar of the Qutub complex; India is considered a leader in the world in
terms of technical and ancient architecture.
In Vishnudharmottara Purana about painting artworks written –
Kalanam Pravaram Chitram Dharmarth Kaam Mokshadam,
Mangalya Pratham Dotad Grihe Yatra Pratishtam.
That is, painting is the highest of the arts in which Dharma, Artha, Kama, and Moksha are attained. Therefore, the
presence of auspicious is always considered in the house where the prestige of the pictures is high. Yashodhar Pandit in
his book Jayamangala has given a detailed discussion of the six limbs of art so that you can paint a picture as a
complete picture. This is a unique measure in the Indian art world that no one can deny.

अजंता भाग १ 

आज मैं आपको भारत के चित्रकारी के ह्रदय से मिलाने का प्रयास करने वाली हूँ, 

क्या आप अनुमान लगा सकते हैं,

शायद सभी समझ गये होंगे कि मैं किसकी बात कर रही हूँ।

जी- मैं बात कर रही हूँ अजंता की अप्रतिम अपरिहार्य एवम् अपने युग की अविस्मरणीय चित्रकारी की। 

इनकी चित्रकारी को समझने के लिए हमें सूक्ष्म में भगवान बुद्ध का जीवन परिचय जान लेना चाहिए, इससे न केवल हम गहराई से इसके महत्व को समझ पायेंगे बल्कि विद्यार्थी आसानी से इनकी चित्रकारी के नाम भी याद कर पायेंगे। मैं कहानी के साथ जो मुझे स्मरण में आ रहे हैं उन सभी चित्रों के नाम भी अंकित करती जाऊँगी और एक बार पुनः जब उनको गुफाओं के नंबर के साथ दोहराऊंगी तो आपको ये नाम आसानी से याद हो जायेंगे। इसके अलावा आपको अन्य भी रोचक प्रश्नों के उत्तर मिलते जायेंगे अतः आप इस ब्लॉग को पूरा पढ़ें –

भगवान् बुद्ध जिनका वास्तविक नाम सिद्धार्थ था एवं वे राजा शुद्धोधन के पुत्र थे।  उनकी जन्म देने वाली माँ – मायादेवी थीं एक दिन जब बुद्ध गर्भ में थे तो उन्हें स्वप्न में कमल के दर्शन हुए ( मायादेवी का स्वप्न (चित्र )), सिद्धार्थ को जन्म देने के बाद संभवतः ७ दिनों में उनका स्वर्गवास हो गया तथा सिद्धार्थ का पालन पोषण उनकी बहन प्रजापति गौतमी ने किया था -जो कि उनकी दत्तक माँ भी थीं एवं बुद्ध के संघ में प्रवेश करने वाली वे प्रथम महिला थीं। जिनसे राजा शुद्धोधन को एक अन्य पुत्र प्राप्त हुआ जिनका नाम नन्द था जिनके अनेक चित्र – नन्द तथा सुंदरी की कथा , नन्द की दीक्षा , नन्द का वैराग्य – भिक्षु होना आदि प्राप्त होते हैं।  सिद्धार्थ लुम्बनी में पैदा हुए थे। इनके जन्म के समय ही शाक्त मुनि ने इनके सन्यासी होने की भविष्यवाणी की थी। राजा ने इस डर से इन्हें अत्यधिक ऐशो आराम में रखा एवं पढाई पूरी होते ही इनका विवाह यशोधरा के साथ कर दिया (इनके विवाह में उस समय की सर्वश्रेष्ठ सुंदरी एवं वैशाली की नगर वधु आम्रपाली भी आई थी जो कि बाद में भिक्षुणी बन गई थी साथ ही मगध नरेश बिंबसार जिनका पुत्र अजातशत्रु था जो कि अत्यधिक क्रूर राजा था – इससे संबधित चित्र हैं – अजातशत्रु और बुद्ध की भेंट एवं अजातशत्रु की पत्नी) भी आये थे। 

एवं यशोधरा से इन्हें राहुल नाम का पुत्र प्राप्त हुआ। लेकिन शुरू से ही इनका वैरागी एवं अहिंसक मन संसार के दुःखों को देख कर इतना व्यथित हो गया कि वे प्रत्येक प्राणी के दुःखों को दूर करने के उपाय सोचने लगे , पति की इस पीड़ा से व्यथित यशोधरा को लगा कि यदि वे महल में रहेंगे तो शायद कुछ अनहोनी न हो जाये एवं  बुद्ध ने भी आश्वासन दिया कि वे अपने प्रश्नों का उत्तर मिलने पर लौट आयेंगे।  यशोधरा के पति के जाने बाद का चित्र मरणासन्न राजकुमारी एवं  बुद्ध का गृह त्याग के रूप में चित्रित है।  

बुद्ध ने अलार कलाम से दीक्षा ली एवं योग के चरम बिंदुओं को पाया लेकिन फिर भी प्रश्न बाकी थे तो उन्होंने विचार किया कि जब तक उन्हें उनके प्रश्नों के उत्तर नहीं मिलेंगे वे अन्न ग्रहण नहीं करेंगे , वे वैट वृक्ष के नीचे ध्यान में स्थित थे – तभी वहाँ सुजाता नाम की स्त्री आई – उसे लगा कि वृक्षदेवता ही मानो पूजा लेने के लिए शरीर धरकर बैठे हैं। सुजाता ने बड़े आदर से सिद्धार्थ को खीर भेंट की और कहा- ‘जैसे मेरी मनोकामना पूरी हुई, उसी तरह आपकी भी हो।’ इस घटना से संबधित चित्र है सुजाता की खीर। 

 उसी रात को ध्यान लगाने पर सिद्धार्थ की साधना सफल हुई। उसे सच्चा बोध हुआ, तभी से वे ‘बुद्ध’ कहलाए। जिस वृक्ष के नीचे सिद्धार्थ को बोध प्राप्त हुआ, उसका नाम है बोधिवृक्ष (पीपल का पेड़ ) है और  जिस स्थान की यह घटना है, वह है बोधगया।

हाँ बीच में साधना के अंतर्गत कामदेव पर विजय ( मार विजय ), पूर्व जन्म कथाएं ( छ्दंत जातक, हस्ती जातक , महाहंसजातक , चीटियों के पहाड़ पर सांप की तपस्या आदि पूर्व जन्म के चित्र हैं जिन्हें जातक कथाओं के नाम से जाना जाता है ) आदि विभिन्न प्रकरण भी उनके जीवन में घटित हुए।  

बोध प्राप्त होने के बाद  – आषाढ़ की पूर्णिमा को भगवान बुद्ध काशी के पास मृगदाव वर्तमान में जिसे सारनाथ कहते हैं – वहीं पर उन्होंने सबसे पहला धर्मोपदेश दिया। भगवान बुद्ध ने मध्यम मार्ग अपनाने के लिए लोगों से कहा। दुःख, उसके कारण और निवारण के लिए अष्टांगिक मार्ग सुझाया। अहिंसा पर बड़ा जोर दिया। यज्ञ और पशु-बलि की निंदा की।

 80 वर्ष की उम्र तक भगवान बुद्ध ने धर्म का सीधी-सरल लोकभाषा – पाली में प्रचार किया। उनकी सच्ची-सीधी बातें जनमानस को स्पर्श करती थीं। लोग आकर उनसे दीक्षा लेने लगे। यहाँ अँगुलीमार एवं अजातशत्रु जैसे क्रूर लोगों के ह्रदय परिवर्तन की कथा प्रचलित है।  यहां सम्राट अशोक का नाम भी उल्लेखनीय है जो कि मौर्य वंशके महान शासक – चन्द्रगुप्त के पौत्र थे एवं कलिंग युद्ध के पश्चात उन्होंने बौद्ध धर्म अपना लिया था एवं विभिन्न एशियाई देशों में ८४००० स्तूपों का निर्माण करवाया।  इनके पुत्र महेन्द्र, एवं पुत्री संघमित्रा का नाम भी बौद्ध धर्म के प्रचार में उल्लेखनीय स्थान रखता है। 

अब हम बीच में जो कहानी अधूरी रह गई उसे पूरा करते हैं – ज्ञान प्राप्त करने के बाद बुद्ध लुम्बनी जाते हैं , एवं जिस नगर के लोगों को वो दान दिया करते थे – आज वो वहां भिक्षा मांगते हैं -( राज गृह की गलियों में भिक्षा पात्र लिए बुद्ध ) , पिता नाराज़ भी हैं और इस विचार में भी हैं कि शायद अब यह लौट आये , बुद्ध के पुत्र राहुल नौ वर्ष के हो चुके थे व अपनी माता से पिता की वीरता एवं महानता के विषय में सुनते रहते थे , अब सिद्धार्थ – बुद्ध के रूप में प्रेम का रूप हो चुके थे, सभी के प्रति प्रेम रखने वाले बुद्ध ने पुत्र को ह्रदय से लगाया।  

यशोधरा बुद्ध की पत्नी थीं वे जान गई थीं अब वे सूर्य का प्रकाश बन चुके हैं जिस प्रकाश पर सारे विश्व का अधिकार है, बुद्ध ने जब अपना भिक्षा पात्र आगे किया तो यशोधरा ने राहुल का समर्पण कर दिया , क्योंकि इससे कम और अधिक वह देती भी क्या , सम्बंधित चित्र – माता पुत्र जिसे राहुल समर्पण के नाम से भी जानते हैं  जो कि अजंता के पद्मपाणि के बाद दूसरा सबसे प्रसिद्ध चित्र है।  

अस्सी वर्षों तक धर्मोपदेश देने के बाद उनका महानिर्वाण  कुशीनगर नामक स्थान पर हुआ। 

 तो ये थी भगवान् बुद्ध की कहानी क्योंकि इनके जन्म से लेकर कोई भी घटना क्रम नेट व अन्य प्रश्नपत्रों में पूछा जा सकता है तो इसलिए मैंने विद्यार्थियों की एवं पाठकों की रूचि के लिए सम्पूर्ण वृतांत को सीमित कर बताने का प्रयास किया है। 

 अभी क्यूंकि यह विषय काफी विस्तृत है इसलिए मुख्य बिंदुओं के साथ हम इसकी चर्चा अगले भाग में करेंगे।   

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Author Ridhi Sarraf Riddhima  

International renowned artist and awarded with fellowship by culture ministry of India

From time to time all art and aesthetics reflect the current intellectual trends of their time.

Sigmund Freud of Austria, a revolutionary, the great physician of the human mind, the founder of psychoanalysis, was not only a neurologist, psychiatrist, but also a philosopher, writer, poet. In short, he did not leave any subject untouched. Sigmund Freud discussed psychoanalysis as a way to deal with psychopaths and as an intellectual discipline.

  A kind of upheaval or revolution of ideas was by Sigmund Freud a medical man who founded the science of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis initially emerged as a technique to treat mental illness, which was related to mental diseases. Then Freud tried to probe deeper into the unknown realm of the unconscious and was successful in this. Freud also conducted psychoanalytic studies on art and thus attempted to find unconscious factors within the artist’s own psyche.

A famous conception about Freud’s theory-

Freud’s theory – libido is often defined only in relation to amorousness. But this theory of Freud is much broader and deeper than this. This energy generally discusses the subject of the corporeal, but it also analyzes other diverse and broader states of mind. According to them, a large part of our brain is unconscious. He explained it as saying that mental energy is like a great reservoir; it includes mental impulses, primitive emotions and desires and felt pain etc.

Freud’s ideas about art seem like sensuality. But he interpreted both art and dreams as expressions of desires powerfully active in the unconscious. According to him, art is the fulfilment of man’s insatiable desires. Freud’s aesthetic theory presented such subjective and discordant theory.

But his discovery was so important that not only it did transform psychological theory, but revolutionized the entire intellectual world and post-Freud thought was not as before.

Before understanding Freud’s ideas of art, it is necessary to take a look at his other psychoanalytic aspects as well –

Oedipus and Narcissus Doctrine –

The heroes of Greek myths have been fascinating to psychoanalysts, who regard them as symbols of human intrapsychic life, development and conflicts. Many of these gods and heroes, such as Oedipus, Electra, Eros and Narcissus, have been named after psychological conditions, conflicts, and illnesses. Freud chose the myth of Narcissus to symbolize a self-absorbed individual whose libido is invested in the ego rather than in other people. The term narcissistic personality disorder, also derived from myth, describes a self-loving character with grandiose feelings of uniqueness.

His study emphasized the identification of childhood events that can affect the mental function of adults. Genetic and then developmental aspects gave psychological theory its characteristics.

According to Freud, dynamic personality formation and other ideologies –

Freud considered the nature of the mind or personality to be dynamic.

In general, the development of the ability to do a task in a better way is called dynamic development. And it is in gross (cognitive) and subtle (ignorant) form.

According to Freud, the dynamic side of personality is formed by three stages.

1. Id

2. Ego

3. Super ego

According to him personality is the name of the activities of our mind and body. According to Freud, there are some mental elements which are not found in the conscious. In this, desires are related to childhood wishes, sexual desires and mental struggle etc., which are not even known to the person himself. Generally, the person is not able to fulfil them in his day-to-day life and by taking these distorted forms; these desires are present in front of the person in the form of dreams or sudden practical abnormalities.

Id is born with the birth of man. Its themes are desires that are related to libido and want instant gratification.

The ego is considered by Freud as self-consciousness which he described as the secondary control of human behaviour. It is the organized part of the Id, its purpose is to further the goals of the Id.

Para ego is a kind of standard of behaviour, which reflects moral behaviour. It develops over a period of time. Freud’s ideas of personality are also called the theory of psychosexual development. Freud has divided it into 5 stages –

1. Oral stage – one year from birth

2. Anal stage – 2 to 3 years

3. Phallic stage – 4 to 5 years

4. Latency stage – 6 to 12 years

5 Genital stages – 12 to 20 years

On the basis of the above theory, he gave the concept of Electra and Oedipus, which is a very complicated and controversial theory. According to him many qualities and characteristics of the lower animals are seen in man. And here in this theory he has tried to define attraction towards opposite sex.

According to him, only 1/8 part of the brain is conscious; the rest 7/8 part is unconscious. Many times in our life, we find this unconscious state when suddenly some social concepts break. Dreams, daydreams, slip of the tongue and small or major lapses of memory are other manifestations of the unconscious.

According to Freud, a work of art emanates from the three levels of the mind. Freud’s art theory is a dynamic theory and is full of energy, and he describes the artist as a creator or reservoir.

Here we will mainly explain his ideas about beauty or art.

Freud’s discussion on poetry, art and beauty –

Although Freud never presented a very mature and complete idea of ​​art, yet we can know his ideas from his various essays, books and lectures.

Some of his works –

Leonardo da Vinci,

The Interpretation of Dreams,

The Relation of Poet to Daydreaming,

Wish Fulfilment and the Unconscious,

On Creativity and the Unconscious: Papers of the Psychology of Art, Literature, and Religion

According to him, if the part of our brain remains insatiable or in repression, then it never ends. That is, those unsatisfied desires remain buried somewhere and those desires constantly struggle to come out. But these are stopped by the ego which appears as a reflection of the outside world. Those desires are seeking pleasure, yes they are not satisfied at the level at which they initially appeared as instincts.

Some of the ways that one presents the gratification of this unconscious desire are –

Anna Freud who was Freud’s daughter, herself has discussed these main defence mechanisms. Because through these the ego can block itself from external reflections and can also satisfy its unconscious desires. These brain resources are also unconscious.

His thoughts regarding art and the artist pass through the unconscious mind. Actually, therefore, first in short we have to know the explanation of these brain resources also.

Some of these are as follows –

Repression: suppression means to completely stop or restrict those impulses which are not acceptable in the outside world. As we often find, in religious places saying a person that he is completely pure and he does not have such dirty thoughts thus he suppresses many of his physical and mental desires.

Opposite: means to turn an unwanted desire into an opposite desire, such as hate with love. As it happen in the case with real brothers.

Turning towards oneself: In this the person loves or hates himself. The above mentioned narcissism is an example of love and masochism is an example of hate.

Displacement: This is also an important mechanism in which the place of one object is taken by another object. As some people themselves are suffering from the trouble they demand justice or agitate against it in the society.

Neurotic Symptoms: He has elaborated on hysteria or other imaginary diseases. According to him, all these are the result of our repressed feelings.

Up gradation: This is an advanced and socially supported dimension. This sublimation process includes art, poetry, religion etc. Freud told that this is also the form of our repressed desires but it is presented in a different way.

Freud has described in detail about Leonardo, Novelist Dostoevsky and the religious man Moses. According to Freud, the artist’s subjects are influenced by his early life. Such as the works of Leonardo –

Infantile Fantasies of Vulture.

Fantasy about female figure – Her Mother.

Monalisa – Represents her mother’s smile.

Revival of Childhood – Revival of Childhood through Colour, lines and structure.

Madonna – Mother is glorified as a portrait in art.

His Abnormal Desire to Look – A Glimpse of Childhood

For Freud, art is a symbolic summary of unconscious desires.

Here comes the theory of dreams because dreams are the workshop of symbols.

Dream and art –

Dreams are mental actions that seem meaningless but are never meaningless. They are fulfilling our desires in another way. According to him, unsatisfied desires take the form of dreams to manifest in sleep. First of all, big desires take a small form, then they manifest in a perverted form in dreams. As if anger or aggression is in the form of a knife or a pistol. The dream acts like a personal hidden symbolic code. Dreams have a symbolic construction. And similarly this symbol is cited in the form of fairy tale, folk song or poetry.

According to Freud, the creation of dreams or art is identical. In both there is a journey beyond daily life.

There are some differences between art and dream – that art is an act done consciously or in the knowledge, whereas dream is not.

Art is tied to the medium whereas the dream is not.

In art, there is variety in pictures, whereas dreams are of a strange kind.

The individual desires of the artist take the form of an art picture or figure and they are also enjoyed by other people, there are also various reasons for this –

As fiction presentation should not be personal it should be universal.

The topic should be of engaging people.

The principle of beauty should be expanded.

According to Freud, art is a kind of reconciliation between the principles of pleasure and mental functioning.

First, Freud collects examples of an infinite number of desires – whether it is about the punishment of Hamlet, or the various works about the only strong memory of Vinci’s mother, or Michelangelo’s work on Moses in all the mental attitudes or constellations are functioning in the same manner.

The art in them act like the most personal dream. The artist not only presents an imitation of the true life, but he rises above all by liberating himself.

Reference:  Krishna’s Aesthetics, Prakash Veereshwar

Nupur Sharma, HindiSahitya.com, Arash Javanbakht

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more and more layers and then nature – just like after a long tour I’m back to home and taking a rest.

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विष्णुधर्मोत्तर पुराण और कला 

भारत में चित्रकला का एक प्राचीन स्रोत विष्णुधर्मोत्तर पुराण है। विष्णुधर्मोत्तर पुराण मार्कण्डेय द्वारा रचित है। इसमें लगभग १६ हजार श्लोक हैं जिनका संकलन ६५० ई. के आस-पास हुआ। इसके तीन खण्ड हैं। प्रथम खण्ड में २६९ अध्याय हैं, द्वितीय खण्ड में १८३ अध्याय तथा तृतीय खण्ड में ११८ अध्याय हैं।

विष्णुधर्मोत्तर पुराण के ‘चित्रसूत्र’ नामक अध्याय में चित्रकला का महत्त्व इन शब्दों में बताया गया है-

                           कलानां प्रवरं चित्रम् धर्मार्थ काम मोक्षादं।

                           मांगल्य प्रथम् दोतद् गृहे यत्र प्रतिष्ठितम् ॥

कलाओं में चित्रकला सबसे ऊँची है जिसमें धर्म, अर्थ, काम एवम् मोक्ष की प्राप्ति होती है। अतः जिस घर में चित्रों की प्रतिष्ठा अधिक रहती है, वहाँ सदा मंगल की उपस्थिति मानी गई है।

विष्णुधर्मोत्तर पुराण एक उपपुराण है। इसकी प्रकृति विश्वकोशीय है। कलाओं के अतिरिक्त इसमें ब्रह्माण्ड, भूगोल, खगोलशास्त्र, ज्योतिष, काल-विभाजन, कुपित ग्रहों एवं नक्षत्रों को शान्त करना, प्रथाएँ, तपस्या, वैष्णवों के कर्तव्य, कानून एवं राजनीति, युद्धनीति, मानव एवं पशुओं के रोगों की चिकित्सा, खानपान, व्याकरण, छन्द, शब्दकोश, भाषणकला, नाटक, नृत्य, संगीत और अनेकानेक कलाओं की चर्चा की गयी है। यह विष्णुपुराण का परिशिष्‍ट माना जाता है। 

प्रथम खण्ड में २६९ अध्याय हैं जिनमें अन्य पुराणों के समान संसार की उत्पत्ति, भूगोल सम्बन्धी वर्णन, ज्योतिष, राजाओं और ऋषियों की वंशावलियां आदि और शंकरगीता, पुरूरवा, उर्वर्शी की कथा, श्राद्ध, वृत आदि स्रोत आदि विषय हैं।

द्वितीय खण्ड के १८३ अध्यायों में धर्म, राजनीति, आश्रम, ज्योतिष का पैतामह-सिद्धान्त, औषधि विज्ञान आदि मानव के नित्य प्रति के जीवन से संबन्धित विषय हैं।

तृतीय खण्ड में ११८ अध्याय हैं। इसमें संस्कृत और प्राकृत का व्याकरण, शब्दकोष, छन्दशास्त्र, काव्यशास्त्र, आदि साहित्यिक विषय तो हैं ही नृत्य और संगीत आदि ललित कलायें और वास्तु जैसी ललित शिल्प-कलाओं का भी विस्तृत विवेचन हुआ है।

उल्लेखनीय है कि उसमें कलाओं के विशेषत: मूर्तिकला और चित्रकला के प्राविधिक ज्ञान को पूर्णता प्राप्त हुई है। उसकी प्रस्तावना में पुराकालीन नारायण मुनि द्वारा वर्णित किसी ‘चित्रसूत्र’ का उल्लेख करते हुए यह बताया गया है कि यह ग्रन्थ उसी पुरातन ग्रन्थ का पुन: संस्करण है। फिर भी यह निश्चित है कि यह अधिक बड़ा नहीं है, किन्तु छोटे या संक्षेप रूप में उसमें जो कुछ प्रतिपादित है, उसकी समकालीन तथा भावी कला पीढि़यों के लिए एकमात्र यही आधार बना रहा । उसके नौ अध्यायों का क्रम इस प्रकार है:1. आयाम मान वर्णन, 2. प्रमाण वर्णन. 3. सामान्य मान वर्णन, 4. प्रतिमा लक्षण वर्णन. 5. क्षयवृद्धि. 6. रंगव्यतिकर, 7. वर्तना, 8. रूप-निर्माण और 9. श्रृङ्गारादि भाव कथन ।

डॉक्टर जायसवाल का अभिमत है कि 5वीं या इसके बाद तक अधिकतर पुराणों के पुन: संस्करण हो चुके थे। पार्जिटर और हजारा आदि विद्वानों ने ‘विष्णुधर्मोत्तर पुराण’ को छठी शती का बताया है। बूलर ने अनेक प्रमाणों से इसकी पुष्टि करते हुए यह स्थापित किया है कि उक्त पुराण की रचना काश्मीर में हुई। गुप्तयुगीन भारत के विद्या केन्द्रों में कश्मीर का भी एक नाम था। गुप्तयुगीन काश्मीर में उन दिनों कवि मातृगुप्त का शासन था, जिसकी नियुक्ति तत्कालीन गुप्त सम्राट ने की थी। अत: विष्णुधर्मोत्तर पुराण की रचना काश्मीर में होने की बात अधिक युकितसंगत जान पड़ती है और  साथ ही यह भी निर्विवाद सिद्ध होता है कि उसकी देन का श्रेय गुप्तयुग को ही है।

गुप्तकाल से लेकर भारतीय कला की यह यात्रा आगे भी जारी रही, इसे उल्लिखित करते हुए वाचस्पति गैरोला लिखते हैं- भारतीय संस्कृति और कला के इतिहास में ‘स्वर्णयुग’ के संस्थापक गुप्त सम्राटों का अस्तित्व लगभग छठी शती ई. के मध्य तक बना रहा, किन्तु उसकी उन्नतावस्था प्राय: भानुगुप्त के शासनकाल (495-510) तक ही देखने को मिलती है। गुप्तों के शासनकाल में जो महान सांस्कृतिक अभ्युदय हुआ, उसकी परम्परा आगे की अनेक शताब्दियों  तक बनी  रही  ।

* कला एक संसार नहीं लेकिन यदि हमें संसार को समझना है तो कला  हमें तैयार करती है… 

* ‘I am a restless soul’

* “To stoop down and kiss the earth.

Between the skyward sprouts

And the leaves that fall to earth

Revolves the endless tale

Of birth and life and death.”

K. G. Subramanyan was born in 1924 in Kuthuparambain Kerala, India and studied economics at Presidency College, Madras.  The turning point of his life as an artist came when he visited Santiniketan to study at Kala Bhavan, the art faculty of Visva Bharati University in 1944 under the guidance of Nandalal Bose, Benode Behari Mukherjee and Ramkinkar Baij.

K.G. Subramanyan was greatly influenced by folk art from Kerala, Kalighat painting and Pattachitra from Bengal and Odisha, as well as Indian court paintings. 

His visual language combines a variety of elements like art principles of European Modernism and folk expression. He is known as a painter, muralist, sculptor, printmaker, set designer and toy maker. Subramanyan’s works from the late 40’s reflect the influence of his teachers at Santiniketan. Subramanyan reverted to small-scale works on acrylic sheet revisiting his favourite themes of brilliantly coloured interiors, domestic animals and brazen women. To this he has added Christian mythology and contemporary politics. 

Subramanyan’s prominent black line recalls Pablo Picasso and F. N. Souza, but only serves, in his case, to differentiate his figures from the surface of the work, the volume from the plane. Known for the sensuality of his imagery and figures, the nightly backdrops and the reflective faces, Subramanyan’s paintings reveal a continued cubist influence. A revered teacher and theoretician, Subramanyan is a well-known fiction writer and poet and has written extensively on art. 

Subramanyan resided in Baroda, with his daughter Uma, towards the later days of his life and it was here that he died on 29 June 2016.

He has received the Kalidas Samman in 1981, the Padma Shri in 1975, and the Padma Vibhushan in 2012.

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