LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:7 July 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Painting: A Tool of Non-Verbal Communication

Dr. Preeti Bala Sharma

Abstract

Communication has been associated with all living beings from the very beginning. We are born with the capacity to communicate. There are many complex feelings which cannot be expressed through verbal means so people, all over the world, use arts, particularly fine arts, in order to express their individual experiences and creativity.

Painting is a one form of this art. Through this, much is said without saying anything. The artists symbolize the intended messages and codify them and allow the spectator or viewer to decode and interpret the hidden messages or meanings. Therefore, painting is not only a tool of recording human history, but also a tool of conveying a wide range of the stories, emotions, feelings, inner world symbolically, didactically or in a hidden mode. This paper aims to focus on various ways through which painting remains a tool of non-verbal communication.

Keywords: non-verbal communication, Rasa, functions of painting, six aspects of paintings: rupa bhedah, pramaman, bhava, lavanya yojanam, varnika- bhangah, chitrasutra.

Chief of All Arts

In Vishnudharmottara, it is stated that,

“As Sumeru is the chief of the mountains, as Garuda is the chief of those born of eggs, as the king is the chief of men, even so in this world is the practice of painting the chief of all arts.” (O.P. Agrawal 61)

Painting – Natural Inclination

We, human beings, dream and can share our dreams with others. If we share it through words, then we are communicating verbally, and if we use colors, brushes, etc. then we are communicating through pictures or paintings. Like dancing, painting is very natural to us, and it has its origin from the early cave paintings when communication used to be either by assigning a symbolic meaning to concrete objects or by means of drawing, engraving or painting pictures or marks. Early humans used to paint in order to maintain the memory of the world in the surrounding area and to give definite shape or form to their abstract sentiments. Whatever the reason be, the important thing to note is that these cave paintings depict the life of early humans, their daily routine, and their way of living and their thinking.

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Preeti Bala Sharma, M.A, M.Phil, Ph.D, PGCTE
Assistant Professor of English & Communication Skills
Jagan Nath University
Jaipur 302001
Rajasthan
India
vyaspari18@gmail.com
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