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May

Sanjay Kamble – Watercolour Landscape Artist

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Sanjay V. Kamble was born in the tiny village of Vaduj Dist. Satara. He did reasonably well in school but found an inclination towards the Arts in his early years. He pursued his passion at the renowned JJ Art school in Mumbai, LS Raheja, Bandra School of Art and Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya in Pune, Maharashtra. He then started his professional career as a Freelance Illustrator doing caricatures for comics and all kinds of work for National and Multinational advertising agencies and newspapers in Mumbai. A one job assignment then took him all the way to Dubai. Since then he has been serving as a successful Art Director and a full-time freelance illustrator including finding time for his first love – painting.

It was long journey faught with challenges but he triumphed with perseverance. According to Sanjay, commercial art may not lead to happiness but painting can give joy and satisfy the soul. Though Sanjay was away from India for the past 12 years, in his own words, he was never separated emotionally from his beloved motherland. He is specially fascinated by Mumbai and its multi-cultural identity and India’s vibrant rural landscapes. It is lot more painful when you are away from your soil and for him, the only way to express his emotion is by painting his people and places. He feels it is only when he is painting Indian subjects that he feels completely at home. When he chooses to express on paper or canvas, he enjoys the added challenge of creating the human figure thanks to his rich Illustrator background.

Sanjay is inspired by the mystery of transparent watercolour, and wet on wet is particularly a challenge he relishes. Early on, he was told work hard and paint what you love. Ever since he fell in love with painting, he has injected that passion into everything he does and more often than not, he comes out with flying colours.

Selected Awards and Recognition

  • Pamex International Cover Prize Award (Cover design for Govt.of Maharashtra, India) Subject ‘Stree Mukti’
  • Best Caricature in The Hindustan TImes Cartoon Contest (exhibited in Mumbai at the Bajaj Art Gallery)
  • Interview published in Newspapers for Outstanding creative work. Samna (Marathi) / International Indian Magazine
  • First Prize – Creative Category, Photography Contest (Nikon And Dubai International Art Photography Contest)
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19
Apr

Rajput painting – Indian painting that has Mughal Influence

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The traditions of Indian arts and paintings go back to the antiquity, as presently evident in a number of caves, murals of Ajanta, Ellora, pillars, monuments and so on. No doubt, Indian painting is one of the oldest traditions of the country and the mostly found ancient outlining theories of anecdotal accounts suggest that the Indian painting was very common for households to paint their interior rooms as well exteriors of their house. From all the documents and works of the pre-historic times found it can be said that the relation of India with arts and paintings is centuries old.

Among all forms of Indian paintings that have gained a huge popularity worldwide, Rajput painting possesses distinct position. This type of painting has successfully made its safe cage in the minds of millions of arts and paintings enthusiasts all over the world.

According to the experts, the Rajput paintings evolved in the late 16th and 17th century. This form of painting has its origin in the region of Rajasthan and a few Hill States of Punjab. It has been known that all those regions were then rues by the Mughals, for which Mughal influence is noticed in all those artworks.

Some of the most distinguish and popular types of Rajput paintings are discussed hereunder:

  • Bundi: According to the experts, one of the oldest examples of Bundi paintings is the Chunar Ragamala, which was created in the year 1561. As per the experts, this type of painting clearly depicts the influence of the Mughal style of painting. There were several genres of Bundi painting. In between the time 1631 – 58, under Rao Chattar Sal, this type of painting emphasized on the court scenes, occurred in the common people’s lives.
  • Hadauti Painting: it has been found that this type of painting has its history connected tp Kota and Bundi, located in the southeastern Rajasthan.
  • Kota painting: In between the time 1624 – 25, a Mughal decree led to the craving of Kota state, which had its kingdom in Bundi. This type of painting is nothing but the spontaneous and calligraphic representation of the daily events of the common people’s daily lives.

So, in simple words, Rajput painting is a special kind of Indian painting, which has its direct connection with the Mughal painting and for this reason through this painting a new genre of Indian artworks and Indian paintings can be experienced.

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