Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur

Around 1700, artists in Udaipur (a court in northwest India) started to create highly detailed paintings expressing the scenes and moods (bhava) of the city’s palaces, lakes, and mountains. These large works and their emphasis on lived experience represented a new direction in Indian painting.

With many of its paintings on public view for the first time, the exhibition now at the National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) reveals the environmental, political, and emotional contexts in which the new art form emerged. It also highlights the unique visual strategies artists developed to communicate emotions, depict places, and celebrate water resources.

This Zoom presentation follows on the Feathered Art presentation our village held in January, and contrasts the detailed intricacy of the Indian art with the gauzy suggestions of the Japanese art.

To join, RSVP to park21217@aol.com for more meeting information.