Abstract
Gujarat region's cultural conglomeration can be traced through decorative paintings on Harappan pottery and later Chalcolithic culture. These paintings are of variety of patterns constitute of motifs and elements like geometric, non-geometric, human, floral motif etc. Regularity of forms, outstanding symmetry between various component motifs, supplemented by the best rhythmic effect is clearly established by Harappan potters. The paintings demonstrate a remarkable blend of geometrical as well as natural motifs, rendering natural harmony to the subject. None of the motifs represent an isolated occurrence, but the entire repertoire of painted designs is found to continue, but of course with variations and modifications, in the cultures that succeeded the Harappa culture throughout India.
Highlights
GEOMETRIC MOTIFSGeometric motifs are those which are formed by means of basic geometric forms like straight lines, wavy and zigzag lines loops, triangles, squares, circles and dots, diamonds or lozenge pattern, chevron pattern, etc
Gujarat region's cultural conglomeration can be traced through decorative paintings on Harappan pottery and later Chalcolithic culture
The tradition continues through the Neolithic to the Early Harappan, which is characterized by the geographical expansion on to the Potwar Pleateau and into the Indian Punjab, Harayana, northern Rajasthan, and western Uttar Pradesh as well as Gujarat
Summary
Geometric motifs are those which are formed by means of basic geometric forms like straight lines, wavy and zigzag lines loops, triangles, squares, circles and dots, diamonds or lozenge pattern, chevron pattern, etc. 3) Drawn closely like fish-scale: Loops are drawn very closely as a result they form fishscale pattern as seen on pottery from Rangpur, Somnath, Surkotada, Lothal, Kuntasi, Loteshwar. Many times loops with cross-hatching filled with dots or horizontal or vertical lines are found from sites like Rangpur, Surkotada, Lothal, Somnath, Rojdi, Kuntasi etc. At Somnath, the triangles are shown with wavy lines or sun-motif (dot in circle), perhaps having a symbolic meaning, indicating sunrise Another typical motif of the post- Harappan pottery found at Rangpur is the crosshatched triangles, with side scrolls were depicted. Filled or hatched squares served the purpose of space fillers, a basic form of grid decoration Specimens of this type are found from sites like Rangpur, Surkotada, and Lothal. These are used as space-fillers, as border, as separate motif, as enclosure etc
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