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COLOUR CULTURE AND IDENTITY: INFLUENCE OF COLOURS ON KERALA MURAL ART

Yıl 2015, Cilt: 1 Sayı: 3, 315 - 321, 29.12.2015
https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.66751

Öz

The word ‘mural’ is derived from the Latin word ‘murus’, meaning ‘wall’. Murals refer to paintings embellished on visual components like the wall, ceiling, or other huge lasting surfaces. The murals of Kerala unfathomably stand out for their prominence in beauty, clarity and symmetry with unmatchable linear accuracy. The tradition of mural painting in Kerala is unique in the world, and it is extremely rich with symbolism. Made only with natural mineral pigments, the colours represent the qualities of the three gunas- sattva, rajas and tamas. Sattva is purity, which is usually represented by the colour green; the figures painted with green are those for whom knowledge is the chief characteristic. Those in whom rajas, the spur to activity, is predominant, are painted in golden yellow. Tamas, inertia, the least pure is, curiously, represented by white. The traditional colours used in this art are red ochre, yellow, green, blue, white and black. Sometimes blue is also used. This traditional style mural art form uses natural pigments and vegetable colours. The subjects for the painting, derived from various Vedic texts, are not a fanciful representation but drawn from the description in the invocatory verses or dhyana slokas. Flora and fauna and other aspects of nature are pictured as backdrops, in highly stylized manners.

Keywords: Mural, Painting, Natural, Style, Vegetable colour, Vedic Texts

Kaynakça

  • REFERENCE LIST
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Yıl 2015, Cilt: 1 Sayı: 3, 315 - 321, 29.12.2015
https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.66751

Öz

Kaynakça

  • REFERENCE LIST
  • Sarkar, H. (1978). An Architectural Survey of Temples of Kerala. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India.
  • Nārāyaṇappaṇikkar, K. (1991). Folklore of Kerala. New Delhi: National Book Trust, India.
  • Vijayakumār, M. (2006). A Brief Survey of the Art Scenario of Kerala. Kariavattom: International Centre for Kerala Studies.
  • Nayar, T. S., Binu, S., & Pushpangadan, P. (1999). “Uses of Plants and Plant Products in Traditional Indian Mural Paintings”. Economic Botany. 53, 1, 41-50.
  • Dhamija, R. (1988). Sixty Years of Writing on Art & Crafts in India: From Roopa-Lekha, 1928-1988. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers.
  • Sivaramamurti, C. (1970). Indian Painting. New Delhi: National Book Trust).
  • Panikkar, T. K. G. (1995). Malabar and Its Folk. New Delhi; Madras: Asian Educational Services.
  • www. k e r a l a. c o m / k e r a l a r t s / h t m l /fineart.html
  • www.artkerala.com
  • www.kalakeralam.com/finearts/murals.htm
  • www.keralamurals.com
  • www.orgpeople.com/org.projects/murals
  • www.templenet.com/arts/murals.html
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Birincil Dil İngilizce
Bölüm Makaleler
Yazarlar

Sandhya Ravi

Yayımlanma Tarihi 29 Aralık 2015
Gönderilme Tarihi 27 Aralık 2015
Yayımlandığı Sayı Yıl 2015Cilt: 1 Sayı: 3

Kaynak Göster

EndNote Ravi S (01 Aralık 2015) COLOUR CULTURE AND IDENTITY: INFLUENCE OF COLOURS ON KERALA MURAL ART. IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences 1 3 315–321.

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