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Ajanta caves are well known for their creativeness and artistic excellence. Nowhere else at one place is shown such a grand display of the three discipline - architecture, sculpture and painting - in a highly mature and technically perfect state. In the realm of painting, they are unique. A single painting of Ajanta can communicate better than a thousand words. The paintings are a simple, visual representatin of Buddhist ideals and sentiments. It has enthralled ...
Warli painting has its own place in adivasi art of India. It takes its name from the Warli tribes of Maharashtra. It seems their roots are in the rock shelters of ancestors found in Bhimbhedka and Raisen in Madhya Pradesh.Warli paintings are pointers — they fulfil a purpose. Their presence in the hut is auspicious and is said to promote fertility, avert disease, propitiate the dead, etc. They show rituals at birth, marriage, a life full of dance and music, ...
In the 1920s was found one of the world's oldest, most mysterious civilizations: the Indus Valley. Which, in view of the relatively more recent archaeological evidence,, could possibly have evolved from a much older, indigenous culture: of about nine millennia ago--some 6000 years before the growth of Mesopotamian urbanism or about 2000 years before the Egyptian's. Among a variety of excavated material remains, pottery affords a significant clue that influences ...