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Pictorial Factors of Jain Miniatures viewed in Modern Context
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considering the great role played by the visual advertising in the formation of to-day's taste and having in view the relation of words and image in Jain-miniatures it would require very little effort to correlate the basic approaches towards aestheticism and instrumentalism in Pop-Art.5 and Jain-miniatures.
Sanctum Sanctorum :
Since Jain-miniatures are mostly book-illuminations it would be in context, directly, to elaborate the importance of book-illuminations in the present day world of art. To a modern scholar art book-illuminations have a special significance for their very personal touch of the creator, the collector and the meditator. Moreover illuminations gain rare importance since they are not kept open to the casual visitor in museum or library. It has become a very significant trend in aestheticism to-day to go for the sketches of the artists for their very personal art; to find such significant trends in rare manuscripts; and to have the satisfaction of enjoying materpieces very personally in ones own sanctum sanctorum. To-day's excellent printing methods have given this satisfaction in art books printing and thus art is really breaking away from the rigid boundaries of museums. Shouldn't we think that our miniaturists had forethought it?
When a work of art is thus brought to the close scrutiny of the onlooker its pictoriallity and aestheticism is apt to become open to a critical justification : As such the onlooker (to-day's) has gained a 'modern' sight in enjoying pictorial arts. We shall now further assess the Jain-miniatures in this modern context,
Pictorial Factors :
Modern art has given an insight into the development of art forms and pictorial factors starting from a complete blank canvas to reaching back to it. During this journey a person is subjected to the experiencing of not only the formalistic factors (starting from Plato's famous maxim 'Beauty of line, colour and form' and accepted by the fathers of modern art - The cubists-in their significant-form movement), but the whole course of modern art carries one into almost all of the visual and psychological aspects of pictorial configuration. Thus we have a glaxy of such significant factors
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| SR No. | 001595 |
| Book Title | Bhagavana Mahavira and his Relevance in Modern Times |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Narendra Bhanavat, Prem Suman Jain, V P Bhatt |
| Publisher | Akhil Bharat Varshiya Sadhumargi Jain Sangh |
| Publication Year | 1976 |
| Total Pages | 236 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English, Philosophy, Discourse, & Articles |
| File Size | 13 MB |