Studies on Colour Chronicle and Superposition...

Studies on Colour Chronicle and Superposition of Arts Found in Odisha, India

Author Name : Devananda Beura

ABSTRACT Rock art may be considered as the oldest and initial human expression about their socio-economic -cultural lives and practices. Rock arts in form of pictographs and petroglyphs are found in many districts across the state of Odisha. Different colours used for painting the rock arts are either still persisting against the adversity of degrading natural agents or modified physic-chemically by the external pigmentations and incrustations. Rock art paintings are characterized by various parameters like rock surfaces, textures, matrix, pore space and alteration of rocks. The nature of pigmentation and painting such as shining, adherence, depth etc, though not solely, depend upon the rock properties. In many cases, the rock arts are noticed clustered at one place superimposing on one another.Superposition of paintings and engravings are demarcated by observing the characteristics like colour difference, geometry of arts, and interference pattern etc. the paper intends to elaborate the types andsources of colour used in rock arts and interpret the causes of superposition.