Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c10.s4.3

c10.s4.3

In their efforts to be realistic, the painters of Ajaṇṭā took pains to avoid the arrangements in which direct control of the outline is too apparent. Bearing this end in view, the paintings of Ajaṇṭā avoid neatly marked primitive symmetry and immobilised groups deprived of life. The compositions at Ajaṇṭā, on the other hand, are based on the complicated arrangement in which the variety of the attitudes and groups appear to be inexhaustible. But this richness of form, instead of ending the chaotic groups hostile to all conception of unity, added more confusion. Utilised however with care, it created well-balanced composition, its unity undisturbed by the presence of various heterogeneous elements.