Hello everyone!
I am dreaming up a birthday gift for my dear husband - a rendering of his favourite emperor Jahangir. I'd like to reproduce this painting: https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2009/arts-of-the-islamic-world-l09723/lot.43.html
Do you have any favourite books or websites that you recommend for inspiration on mughal painting?
Hi Friends! Can someone please guide me how should a wasli of size 22" x 28" be shipped abroad. i mean how should i pack it for safe shipment? O have to ship it from Pakistan to UK. And is there any framers in Manchester, UK who can frame wasli in a best way.
The Master-Apprentice relationship
I can’t get this out of my mind. I’ll try to keep it opinion-free as far as I can and stick to the questions. Here’s what I’ve been thinking about recently. This is in note form as I have no easy answers - and I look forward to your responses! - only questions. I’m heavily invested in this as my eldest child is at the cusp of the age when children want to start mastery. I feel this, and this is also in line with the book The Gardener and the Carpenter by Alison Gopnik that I’m reading. It’s a parenting book but parenting has a lot of commonalities - and differences - with teaching. I’ll come onto that later, and first my swirling thoughts:
Crafts…. (& painting, and relationship to craft and art and difference in status of the artist in Europe/China, ie high, versus…
I purchased this Miniature painting at a consignment shop, and I was wondering if anyone in the group could help identify the origin and/or the language on the back of the painting. I appears to be a page from a very old book.
It looks fairly recent if I'm honest - also there is a practice of reusing older papers so dating from the original paper is not reliable in itself (I myself sometimes paint on antique papers, eg old accounts etc without images). Do you like the painting? That's the most important thing. The rendering (shading) on the deer is quite fine. And the rocks have a nice movement to them. Someone enjoyed painting this!
Yes - I was just discussing it today with Susan Dobrian - the Padshahnama. Here's some info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padshahnama - it has some great paintings and there is also a great book of the same name based on the historical manuscript - The King of the World: The Padshahnama : An Imperial Mughal Manuscript from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle Hardcover – 1 April 1997 by Milo Cleveland Beach, Ebba Koch & more. If you're going to do a painting of a Mughal emperor then there are lots of good portraitures inspirational images in this book.