{"id":236293,"date":"2023-04-05T20:27:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=236293"},"modified":"2023-04-05T20:27:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:57:38","slug":"kathuas-basohli-painting-gets-gi-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kathuas-basohli-painting-gets-gi-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathua&#8217;s &#8216;Basohli Painting&#8217; gets GI tag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>S<\/strong><strong>ource<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0<strong>\u201cKathua&#8217;s &#8216;Basohli Painting&#8217; gets GI tag<\/strong><strong>\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>published in <strong>The Times of India <\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>3rd April 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>What is the News?<\/h2>\n<p>The world-famous &#8216;Basohli Painting&#8217; from Kathua district has obtained the Geographical Indication (GI) Tag. This is the first time in the history of GI registration that the Jammu region got a GI tag for handicrafts.<\/p>\n<h2>About the Basohli painting<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Originates in<\/strong>: Basholi region of Jammu and Kashmir<\/p>\n<p><strong>Style<\/strong>: It is popular for its miniature art style with vivid, evocative colours, bold lines, and deep-set facial patterns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patronage<\/strong>: The Basholi painting style flourished during the 17th and 18th centuries under the patronage of local rulers and wealthy merchants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Themes<\/strong>: The portraits of local rulers, Radha-Krishna, and Madhava-Malati love themes and themes from the Bhagavata Purana.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Significance<\/strong>: It is considered the first school of Pahari paintings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Salient features of Basohli painting<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>-They have perfect geometrical patterns, bright colours and glossy enamel.<\/p>\n<p>-The figures in the paintings are shown clad in rich costumes, stylised faces and large bulging eyes lending unique individuality to these paintings.<\/p>\n<p>-These are painted on paper, cloth, or wood using natural pigments and dyes. Ochre yellow, brown, and green grounds are the predominant colours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cKathua&#8217;s &#8216;Basohli Painting&#8217; gets GI tag\u201d\u00a0published in The Times of India on\u00a03rd April 2023. What is the News? The world-famous &#8216;Basohli Painting&#8217; from Kathua district has obtained the Geographical Indication (GI) Tag. This is the first time in the history of GI registration that the Jammu region got&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kathuas-basohli-painting-gets-gi-tag\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kathua&#8217;s &#8216;Basohli Painting&#8217; gets GI tag<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,11212,9],"tags":[10496],"class_list":["post-236293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-public","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700143049},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}