Architecture, Art, Literature

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Architecture, Art, Literature Film

• South Southeast Asia

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Earliest South Asian Art

• From the Indus Valley civilization
• Found tiny figures of people and animals that
  probably had religious importance
• Later Indian art showed these influences in
  carvings

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Stupas

• Buddhism emerged as the dominant religion early
  in the continents history.
• During the reign of Asoka (265238 BC), the arts
  were supported and he had builders construct tall
  columns inscribed with messages praising peace
  and nonviolence.

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Stupas continued

• He also ordered the building of STUPAS,
  dome-shaped burial mounds
• The stupas housed remains of the Buddha or other
  holy person and became sacred sites visited by
  pilgrims.

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• Like most religious art, each feature of the
  stupa has symbolic meaning
• The dome stands for heaven
• On top of the dome is a square structure that
  represents the world
• Above the square is an umbrella, the symbol of
  royalty
• The railing and gateways that surround stupas
  have intricate carvings on them of royalty, daily
  life, and scenes from stories.

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Temples

• Both Buddhists and Hindus carved huge temples
  into hillsides
• The Buddhists cave temple at Karli, built around
  A.D. 50, has a vast hall that is 124 feet long
  and almost 50 feet high.

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• At Ellora, Hindu workers built an immense temple
  96 feet high by chiseling from the top of a hill
  down its base

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Sculpture

• Sculptors decorated every inch of temples with
  rich carvings
• Through carvings, people learned Hindu stories
  and traditions
• Indian artists united Buddhist and Hindu themes.
  EX a Hindu temple carving might include the
  lotus flower, a symbol of the Buddha
• At first Buddhists artists did not show the
  Buddha as a human figure, but as symbols such as
  the sacred tree

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Buddha of BamiyanDestroyed by the Taliban in
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Literature

• Religion inspired Indian literature as well as
  art.
• The great sources of Indian literature are two
  epic poems, the Mahabharata (The Great Story)
  and the Ramayana (Ramas Way)
• Mahabharata has 100,000 verses and contains many
  basic Hindu ideas. This long poem tells about a
  12-year war between two branches of a royal
  family.
• Ramayana contains Hindu teachings and the story
  about Rama, his wife Sita, and his brother
  Lakshmana

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The Performing Arts

• Dance and Theater
• Every movement in Indian dancing has meaningthe
  dancers tell a story
• Dancers train for years to learn hundreds of hand
  gestures, called mudras
• Indian theater combines music, dance, pantomime
  and dialogue
• Many dramas are based on episodes from the
  Mahabharata, the Ramayana or other well-known
  tales.

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Bollywood

• Today, movies are Indias most popular performing
  art
• India has the largest motion picture industry in
  the world
• Its studios turn out more than 900 films each
  year
• Most Indian movies are made in Mumbai with actors
  who speak Hindi
• Most movies have gorgeous costumes, exotic sets,
  dancing and singing

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Om Shanti Om

• Om Shanti Om is a 2007 Bollywood film directed
  and choreographed by Farah Khan. It stars Shah
  Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in the lead roles
  as the protagonists while Shreyas Talpade, Arjun
  Rampal, and Kirron Kher feature in supporting
  roles. Arjun Rampal is the antagonist in the
  movie. Nearly thirty stars from yesteryear and
  today are referred to or show up during the
  duration of the film, including twenty-eight of
  them (not including the stars of the film) in one
  song alone

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