Life of Tirthankaras depicted in Jain style of Manuscripts

May 18, 2019

11.00 AM - 04.00 PM

Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum & N.C. Mehta Gallery
Nr. Gujarat University, Navarangpura, Ahmedabad, India 380009

Open For All.

2019-05-18 11:00:00 2019-05-18 16:00:00 Asia/Kolkata Life of Tirthankaras depicted in Jain style of Manuscripts Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum & N.C. Mehta Gallery Invites you to: Lifes of Tirthankaras depicted in Jain style of Manuscript Paintings An Interactive Presentation by Prof. Ratan Parimoo, Director of the Museum followed by an event on Jain style of Painting of Gujarat open to art students as well as interested participants. Venue: Basement, Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum, Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology Campus, Nr Gujarat University, Navrangpura Ahmedabad The objective of the event is to understand the flow of line evolved by Jain painters and fluent calligraphic quality achieved by them as they enclosed the closure shapes with outlines. Perspective and three-dimensional modelling have been avoided but substitute devices are conceived to suggest space as well as volume. The concept of frontality was intuitively visualized by the Jain style painters as it had been done by Egyptian artist many centuries earlier. The objective of these freehand adaptations is to understand the vocabulary of the pictorial language of Jain art by the participating members and how it is consistently adapted in the Jain manuscript paintings for depiction of human figures, animals and other elements of nature. for more details please contact Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum or N.C. Mehta Gallery Source: Facebook. Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum & N.C. Mehta Gallery Nr. Gujarat University, Navarangpura, Ahmedabad, India 380009 Creativeyatra.com info@creativeyatra.com

Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum & N.C. Mehta Gallery Invites you to:

Lifes of Tirthankaras depicted in
Jain style of Manuscript Paintings

An Interactive Presentation by
Prof. Ratan Parimoo, Director of the Museum

followed by an event on Jain style of Painting of Gujarat open to art students as well as interested participants.

Venue: Basement, Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum,
Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology Campus,
Nr Gujarat University, Navrangpura Ahmedabad

The objective of the event is to understand the flow of line evolved by Jain painters and fluent calligraphic quality achieved by them as they enclosed the closure shapes with outlines. Perspective and three-dimensional modelling have been avoided but substitute devices are conceived to suggest space as well as volume. The concept of frontality was intuitively visualized by the Jain style painters as it had been done by Egyptian artist many centuries earlier. The objective of these freehand adaptations is to understand the vocabulary of the pictorial language of Jain art by the participating members and how it is consistently adapted in the Jain manuscript paintings for depiction of human figures, animals and other elements of nature.

for more details please contact Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum or N.C. Mehta Gallery

Source: Facebook.