My home town is bhavnagar. Bhavnagar is famous as a place of art and culture " કલા અને સંસ્કૃતિ ની નગરી." It has always been an important city for art and artistic. Art galleries exhibit works by artists known by the general public; Exhibitions act as the catalyst of art and ideas to the public. Bhavnagar has many art gallery but we have talking about the one art gallery named after the great artist shri khodidas parmar.
SHRI KHODIDAS PARMAR
Khodidas parmar was a great presence as an artist and a greater gentleman. Khodidas wrote in a magazine an appreciation of a folk song, giving an advance testimony of his life's work. He introduced The Bhatigal Style of saurashtra in painting.
Khodidas parmar has also tried his hands on AJANTA CAVES paintings and to continue that idea and paying respect to their idol some of his students painted the caves paintings and an exhibition was held on it. An exhibition took us towards two more about shri khodidas parmar and second, to know more about ajanta caves.
AJANTA CAVES
The first Buddhist cave monumental at Ajanta date from the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C. during the Gupta period. The paintings and sculpture of ajanta, considered masterpieces of Buddhist religious Art, have had a considerable artistic influence.
Ajanta caves
They are universally regarded as masterpieces of Buddhist religious Art. The ajanta caves constitute ancient monasteries and worship-halls of different Buddhist traditions caved into a 75-metre wall of rock. The caves also present Paintings depicting the past lives and rebirths of the Buddha, pictorial tales from Aryasura's jatakamala, and rock -cut sculpture of Buddhist deities.
Panoramic view of ajanta caves from the nearby hill
Ajanta is one of the major tourist attractions of maharashtra. The ajanta style is also found in the Ellora caves and other sites such as the elephanta caves, aurangabad caves and the cave temples of karnataka.
Since 1983, ajanta caves have been listed among the UNIESCO world Heritage sites of India. In 2012, the maharashtra, tourism development corporations announced plans to add to ASI visitor center at the entrance complete replicas of caves 1,2,16,17, to reduce crowding in the original, and enable visitors to receive a better visuel idea of the paintings, which are dimlylit and hard to read in the caves.
SIGNIFICANCE
NATIVES, SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN THE ARTS AT AJANTA
Ajanta arts predominantly show native.
The ajanta caves arts are a window in to the culture, society and religiosity of the native population of India between the 2nd century BCE and 5th century CE. Different scholars have variously interpreted them from the perspective of gender studies, history, sociology, and the anthropology of South Asia.
According to Walter Spink- one of the most respected art historians on ajanta, these caves were by 475 CE a much revered site to the Indians, with throngs of "transformed into its monks and traders."
FOREIGNERS IN THE PAINTINGS OF AJANTA
The ajanta caves painting are a significant source of social economic information in ancient India, particularly in relation to the interaction of India with foreign cultures at the time most of the paintings were made, in the 5th century CE.
HAROON KHAN SHERWANI
"The paintings at Ajanta cleverly demonstrate the cosmopolitan character of Buddhism, which opened its way to men of all races, Greek, Persian, saka, pahlava, and huna."
Cave 1, for example, shows a mural fresco with characters with foreigner faces or dresses, the so called "Persian embassy scene." This scene is located at the right of the entrance door upon entering the hall.
INTERNATIONAL TREDE, GROWTH OF BUDDHIST
Cave 1 has several frescos with characters with foreigners faces or dresses. Similar depiction are found in the paintings of cave 17. A small number of scenes show foreigners drinking wine in cave 1 and 2.
Wind up
The ajanta caves painting are giving information about that time. Shri khodidas parmar art gallery
Organized ajanta exhibition. 51 paintings make by students of khodidas parmar. Comman public are more information about ajanta paintings.
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