Human Portraiture | मानव चित्रण
Creating a picture is a natural trait of a human being. By drawing a figure in lines or colors, a human being expresses his feelings and gets delighted by seeing the picture made by him. In the beginning of civilization, even wild humans made pictures on the walls of caves with coal or chalk (Chaukh). As civilization developed, the material for making pictures also developed and the artistic beauty of the pictures also increased.
In the remains of the Indus Valley civilization of three thousand years before Christ, artistic statues of a dancer, human head, bearded man and other human forms can be seen. After them, the period of Ajanta, Bagh, etc., in whose paintings human forms were depicted prominently.
With the passage of time, texts were written on palm leaves, and after that miniature paintings developed from the drawings made on paper texts. Pictures are made with many mediums on many surfaces like paper, canvas board, etc. In all these, the human form always got prominence.
To learn human painting, the easiest and most appropriate method is to paint by looking at the model. Due to the influence of foreign countries, painting a person sitting in front has become a separate branch of painting which is called portrait painting. For painting, it is necessary that the figure of the person sitting in front should be visible in the picture because while painting is based on other subjects when the painter paints according to his feelings and original style, then there is no single standard of measurement in it. This is the reason why there is a difference in the measurement of the human figures of Chaur Panchashika, Pahadi painting style, Kishangarh painting style, and Yaminrai.
