Manav Budhani

Story of Art

The essay talks about how nature helped artists worldwide to come up with motifs, extracting their ideas from the natural world around them, which is clearly seen on the Indo-Islamic monuments. The decoration used at that time had fundamental repetitive patterns with specific logic behind the simplistic details. The artists explored new ways of materiality with availability, skills, and knowledge at that time and came up with unique techniques for making such motifs. The motifs influenced the art to reflect them onto the surfaces and walls of Indo-Islamic monuments, which eventually helped them to transform their spaces.