Drawing as Significant Visual Language through the Ages: Primitive to Contemporary Period

Abstract

Present paper is an attempt to provide the information about the gradual transformation of drawing from the early period to present day. Drawing is a basic tool for the visual depiction of various forms deals with articulating and developing one’s extraordinary ideas. An essential feature of the development of art in India that can now be recognized is the persistence of rock paintings. Line is the basis of communication in Indian art. The wall paintings and miniatures of India too are rooted on the power of line. The invention of paper had also redefined the concept of drawing. In pre independence period focus on lyricism through delicacy of line in semi abstract or geometric form. After independence there are conceptual drawing evoke social milieu, fantasy in postmodern framework. Contemporary artists choose to highlight the idea rather and execution which shows eclecticism. These artists interweave the rhythm of life with meaningful forms through memory and experience and also widened Intellectual incisiveness and consciousness.

Authors and Affiliations

Ekta Kulshreshtha

Keywords

Related Articles

Urban Local Body Elections in Port Blair: Social Engineering among city Voters

Port Blair city, the capital of Union Terrirtory of Andaman & Nicobar Islands is a set of multi-lingual, multi – ethnic and multi- culture center. Time and again it has been extended its boundary, number of population an...

To Study the Hemisphere Dominance in Information Processing among B.Ed. Pupil Teachers

Students preferentially take in and process information in different ways, by seeing and hearing, reflecting and acting, reasoning logically and intuitively, analyzing and visualizing, steadily and in fits and starts. In...

Universalisation of Secondary Education in India

Secondary Education (S.E) serves as a link between the elementary and higher education and plays a very important role in this respect. Apart from grounding the roots of education of a child, secondary education can be i...

From Anantajeevanam to Awakened Soil: An Instance of Self-Translation

This paper takes Anantajeevanam and its English translation Awakened Soil, a novel written and translated by Sahitya Akademi Award winner Kolakaluri Enoch, as a unique instance of ‘self-translation’. The paper takes in t...

Socio-Economic View on Street Vendors: A Study of a Daily Market at Jamshedpur

The term ‘Street vendor’ refers to those who are unable to get regular jobs in the remunerative formal sector on account of their low level of education and skills. However, street vending is an important activity relate...

Download PDF file
  • EP ID EP522880
  • DOI -
  • Views 105
  • Downloads 0

How To Cite

Ekta Kulshreshtha (2019). Drawing as Significant Visual Language through the Ages: Primitive to Contemporary Period. Journal of Advanced Research in Humanities and Social Science, 6(1), 1-3. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-522880