Traditional crafts of Jaipur perspective and prospects
The innate, creative impulse in man has urged him to seize upon such unlikely and functional materials as stone or wood: and after mingling with these objects has into products of superb elegance and aesthetic labour, man has turned these mute and dumb items into product of superb elegance and aesthetic eloquence. To compensate for the vagar
ies and inadequacies of nature, monotony of solitude, invented pleasing colour for result of constant alien invasion, the soil in Rajasthan had invented pleasing colours for dresses, creates beautiful handicrafts, built temples with elegant sculptures and executed masterly painting. Jaipur has very rich heritage of art and crafts practised over centuries, it has to be noted that the erstwhile princely patronage gave a fillip to prolific development of these pursuits. The Rajput patrons were themselves great connoisseurs of architecture. Poetry. Painting and crafts the interplay of life and death in the lives of the ruling princes, especially during the period of Muslim sway, determined the emotional content of the patrons of art. Cultural contour of India / Languishing art but flourishing Trade
/ Jagat Pal Singh (Ex.I.A.S.)
