Paper Mache Art Indian drawings and paintings survive from prehistoric times but they are difficult to place in any firm sequence; it is difficult, too, to understand the impulses at work. How much was it magic, how much mimicry that inspired those early drawings? One thing is clear: they were the ancestors of much present-day folk art which, generally with religious overtones, still flourishes in rural India, and even intrudes into the urban tower block!
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But India is better known for its sophisticated paintings illustrating palm-leaf manuscripts or, later, the Mughal, Rajput and Pahari miniatures inspired by Persian art. There was also another, more powerful Islamic influence which shunned the figurative but brilliantly exploited geometric and plant forms. That the European Renaissance left its mark is hardly remarkable, for the Portuguese were in India before the Mughals. The most vigorous progeny of the Mughal and Western synthesis is the kitsch style so common in poster art.
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