Illuminated Jain Manuscripts at the V&A
On illuminated Jain manuscripts, from the V&A museum: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/j/jainism_illuminated_manuscripts-and-jain-paintings/
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The Margins of Miniatures
I have a question about the margins in Persian and Indian miniature manuscript painting - it's for my PhD - is there any literature or are there any sources on this? It seems to have not been written about much.
I would like to know: why did paintings often contain elements that escaped the frame? (eg rocks bursting out of the frames)
(Realise there is perhaps no straight answer to this and I've been pondering this myself for about 12 years now... but still, you might come up with good ideas!)
So far ideas have included:
to bring them 'off the page' as far as possible and closer to us (Dominique Fayad)
as a quiet act of rebellion (Susan Lucas Dobrian)
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Matisse images
As promised yesterday here is the image of the series of Matisse photographs documenting the progress of the painting The Pink Nude, 1935
https://www.wikiart.org/en/henri-matisse/pink-nude-1935
I took it as a screen shot form one of my lectures and so quality not perfect but you can read at the bottom of each image the date of the work and you can see he worked on this for a long long time!!!! And how much transformation! So it is a good lesson to be fearless! And to not worry of the process takes time!
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Vaishali Prazmari
Apr 21
Paintings can definitely change yes and this transformation I also think is to do with the magic that happens in between as the artist can never be fully sure of anything... even something as planned as a miniature. I've just finished a large miniature that had gilding done in the middle of it and the sky changed 3 times from blue, to green, to yellow eventually - until it felt right, basically.
Matisse is great, he was also inspired by Persian miniatures!
Trying to find this miniature from a tiny photo!
I am trying to locate the source of an image that appears on the back dust cover of my copy of The Spirit of Indian Painting (Goswamy):
I couldn't find a credit for this image in the Goswamy text. It is very tiny on the back cover. On a Google reverse image search, only a few rug advertisements came up. I could recreate and work out my design idea from its layout, but I always like to reference my sources. Is anyone familiar with this type of image, and where do you suggest I look to find out more?
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Thank you Mary! I have Nishimura's book but didn't think to look in the bibliography - great idea! Yes the scholarship seems overwhelmingly Western Medieval - and yes there are some aspects that can be transposed and I'm looking at that - and some aspects that cannot be, and that have to be understood within the context of the culture of the MSS. By the way, the 'grandad' of the field is I suppose Michael Camille's Image on the Edge: Margins of Medieval Art, which I recommend. He also talks about the Gothic cathedral's gargoyles as marginalia, as well as the doodles we find on the edges of manuscript pages. Fascinating stuff.