The Process of Image Making In Indian Tradition


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Creator/Artist: Girija Pravin Likhite

Category: Animation Design

Document: Design Research

Batch: 2008-2010

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Shilpa Ranade


Detailed Description

This project includes the documentation and comparative analysis of image making in Indian traditional art. It demonstrates the different grids used for creating the images of Gods, kings and sages along with other human figures. After studying various texts I learnt they were created in order to make a ready vocabulary and grammar of Indian art available for the artists in that era and also for further generations. These texts comprise of a good amount of information on image making, but all the information is very much verbal or descriptive and not illustrative. They talk about the technique but there are hardly any demonstrative images or examples available. In a way it is good as they encourage the reader to imagine and construct the image depending upon his understanding and imagination. In this project I have made an attempt to create illustrative references for various types of images given, based on the available descriptions. These descriptions vary from one text to another. I have also analysed some of the ancient sculptures on the basis of given systems of measurement, in order to understand the image making in Indian traditional art.