Canvas prints

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Great masters of printing love to show their creativity in Canvas prints in a joyful manner. Canvas is a nice tool for an artiest where he can create new imagination very rapidly. As it is portable, it can be carried by an artiest to anywhere. Every stroke of his skillful brush makes some meaning in the Canvas to picture love and feeling. He can share every moment during the creation of a printing work. He uses a lot of time to complete his job and his joy knows no bound when he makes a finishing stroke of his print brush to finish an art work. Most of the canvas pictures enhance the beauty of a living room at home and hotel apartments and even in offices. They make any living or working place beautiful. An artiest adds various colors to make his creation attractive.
And canvas is the most reliable place for an artiest where he can play with colors. The Canvas prints are done on silk cloth and dramatic brushes are used for making sharp strokes. Real creativity of an artiest can be tested in his Canvas prints. His recreationally creativity helps him to convert an empty place into a meaningful artistic work. A high quality Canvas prints is not crated in a day.

A designer uses many sleepless nights for that. It is comparable to a long journey where a traveler gets may experience for sharing during to his month long travel. It is more likely a journey of an art creator in searching of beauty. Very high level thinking skills and knowledge about the theme are essential to fulfill his delusion in to reality. A writer can easily express his thought using pen and a piece of paper. An art master have to do this same job with the help of canvas and other painting materials and then it gets a high price due to its artistic quality and expressible idea. The subject matter of canvas print attracts a common people towards its beauty. Buying such artistic works is just like an investment. They not only decorate your living room but also sometime you and friend can share some good times in front it. Some art designers print their self-portraits and that also reflect their power and confidences of using the canvas competently. A famous Mexican Canvas designer Diego Rivera made canvas print when she was in school. Her art work was so valuable that one of her painting was used by the US postal department in a postal stamp. The portrait of a Mexican girl symbolically represents a Red Indian who is the original son of the soil in the USA. One canvas printing was sold for approximately 51.5 million GBP in 1990. It was a canvas print by an eminent artiest 19th century Vincent van Gogh. He made a self-portrait in 1889 and after around one hundred year that canvas print sold for such a high price.

THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF ANCIENT INDIAN PEOPLE IN ARTS & CRAFTS

By: live7n  :  Filed Under Arts and crafts

The cultural achievements of ancient Indian peoples can be seen in every field viz-language and literature, arts, science etc. Most of Indian languages excited in their primitive from in this time. The Sanskrit was the language of the learned and most of the Vedic literature of the Aryans was composed in that language. Some regional language called Prakrits, developed along with the Sanskrit literature. The progress of Buddhism and Jainism encouraged the growth of this Prakrits language. The famous Indian epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata, were composed in this period, such dramatists as Asvaghosha, Bhasa and Kalidasa had reached the height of their popularity. ‘Panchatantra’, the famous book of animal labels, which have been translated in almost all the modern languages, was written is this period. In the south India, many epics and other poems were composed during this age.

The ancient India had made remarkable progress in the field of art. During the reign of Ashoka, Buddhist monasteries and assembly halls and column of various styles were erected which still stand as the best specimens of their architectural beauty. The lion capital piller at Sanchi is really worth seeing. Stupas were to cover the relics of the Buddha or other holymen.

The stupas at Sanchi and Bhaarhut are notable for their beauty. Their railing and gateways are decorated with sculptures depicting scenes from the life of the Buddha. Chaityas were now build by cutting solid rocks, of which the one of Karle is the most splendid.

During the Kushana period, a new school of art, called the Gandhara school of art came into being. Thousands of Buddha’s statues in the Gandhara style were made. While the Gandhara art was influenced by the Greek style, the other school, called the Mathura school of art, was purely indigenous. It also served as the medium for depicting the scenes from the life of Buddha. The Gupta period is known as the golden age of the Indian art. It was during this period that many beautiful temples dedicate to the Hindu Gods particularly to Lord Vishnu, were built. The world famous paintings on the Ajanta and Bagh cave walls were painted during this period. Undoubtedly, the ancient Indians has made marvelous progress in the field of art, architecture and sculpture.

The need to calculate auspicious days and hours for religious ceremonies and sacrifices led to the growth of astronomy in ancient India. They could foretell the exact time of lunar and solar eclipses. They could calculate accurately the time of the day up to seconds. In the field of Mathematics, their greatest gift to the world is the introduction of the decimal system and discovery of the zero.