TANJORE PAINTING
is a classical South Indian painting style, which was inaugurated from the town of Thanjavur (anglicized as Tanjore). The art form draws its immediate resources and inspiration from way back about 1600 AD, a period when the Nayakas of Thanjavur under the suzerainty of the Vijayanagara Rayas encouraged art - painting of chiefly Hindu religious subjects in temples. It is distinguished by its famous gold coating.
Thanjavur paintings are characterised by rich and vibrant colors, simple iconic composition, glittering gold foils overlaid on delicate but extensive gesso work and inlay of glass beads and pieces or very rarely precious and semi-precious gems. Essentially serving as devotional icons, the subjects of most paintings are Hindu gods, goddesses, and saints. Episodes from Hindu Puranas, Sthala-puranas and other religious texts were visualised, sketched or traced and painted with the main figure or figures placed in the central section of the picture (mostly within an architecturally delineated space such as a mantapa or prabhavali) surrounded by several subsidiary figures, themes and subjects.
Tanjore painting
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New Style
New Tanjore paintings are characterised by rich glittering shining stones and vivid colours,
simple iconic composition, glittering gold foils overlaid on delicate but extensive gesso work
and inlay of glass beads and pieces or very rarely precious and semi-precious gems. It is also pertinent to remember that Tanjore art was functional, in that it was made for a specific purpose on a specific demand from a customer. Customer mainly focus these styles of paintings for pooja rooms.
Antique Style
Antique styles are new Simple iconic not bright, intensely composed old paintings, by the use of 22carat gold foils overlaid in the painting work and the Tanjore paintings are decorated mostly using semi-precious stones to bring out the glow to highlight ornamental structures. These painting are made to look like 50 to 100 years old. These paintings gives a vintage look. In order to get realistic look cracks were made purposely in paintings to enhance it.
Mega Style
Mega paintings are huge in size and they are attractive paintings which are very huge form of art works. They are made in forms like door paintings and mandapam .At Mega Painting we are focused on services with the highest levels of customer satisfaction. Will do everything we can to meet your expectations. In order to decorate painting huge amount of wood work is used to enrich this style of painting to give majestic look. The dense composition, surface richness and vibrant colours of mega Paintings distinguish them from the other types of paintings.
3-Dimensional Painting
Tanjore painting was generally 2D , MR.V.Nagarajan due to his passion to this profession invented 3D painting it is an new style of painting and Still he is improving this 3D art in various forms. After sketching an 3D ART artist proceed to relief work to paintings ,to place precious or semi-precious stones that gives the 3D effect to the painting.3d painting shapes were raised mainly by the use of chalk powder, chemicals and gum . The raised shapes were sculptured which is similar to wooden and stone sculpturing .This art was inspired from the place chettinadu and Mr. Nagarajan mentioned this form of 3d ART AS “CHETTINAD SCHOOL OF ARTS”. This painting shows his uniqueness and high
use of new techniques to enhance art works.
