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ARCHAEOLOGICAL ART OF APPARELS
RAFIQA SULTANA*, AFROZ SULTANA+
Archaeological Art is an aesthetic expression or exercise; It's a study of great civilization of humanistic ideas. It can be explored in many new materials. So this study makes it possible to look at it with a fresh set of ideas and a new research eye. The archeological art history is that of human endeavor. It reveals the deepest recesses of human mind and offers a mirror to the Indian soul. The spiritual and religious content of India's creative genius has found a perfect expression in these aesthetic creations. Archaeological antiquities whenever discovered have always quizzed the world and generated new thought processes. These creations have preserved the vitality and the inspirations of the consciousness, which brought them into existence. Archaeological art is therefore a very precious heritage in the culture of the people.
The Indian archaeological art is hence the spirit of the intellectual, which represents the human and social facts of life, and its vast unending social religious endeavor of its devotees depicted in the forms of Gods and Goddesses. This art hence worshipped has been preserved for generations. A common philosophical base in all countries has been that art is not merely a limitation or record of facts and phenomena's in nature but an interpretation-the effort of the human mind to grasp the inner beauty and meaning of external facts of nature. It is essentially idealistic, mystic, and symbolic.
Explorations, Excavations and consequently the discovery of antiquities over the period of time were able to give it a chronological arrangement which further gave rise to the evolution of various disciplines studied within Archaeology, Research on the sculptures, paintings, architecture, coins, fabric (textiles) etc. of
* Curator, Gujarat Vidyapith Museum, Ahmedabad + Curator, S. P. University, V.V. Nagar, Anand.
