Folk painting in India

Madhubani
○ Mitihila,
○ Women in Terai region of Nepal, Bihar
○ Religious
○ Rice paste, cow dung
○ GI tag




Pata Chitra paintings

○ Odisha
○ On Cloth
○ Scroll
○ Decorated background
○ Jaganath/ Vishnav themes
○ On Palm leaf : Tel pata Chitra



Patua
○ Art of Bengal
○ Scroll painting
○ Cloth






Kalighat
○ Bengal, Kolkata
○ Kalighat temple
○ Water colour
○ Rural migrants
○ Religious in early and later social and sub-alterns
○ First to depict the sub-altern





Paitkar painting
○ Tribal painting of Jharkhand
○ Scroll
○ Theme: life after death

• Kalamkari
○ Cotton fabric, vegetable dies
○ Hindu
○ Andhra pradesh

• Warli
○ 2500-3000 BCE
○ Gujrat, Bhimbetka
○ Mural similar to Bhimbrtka
○ Ritualistic painting

• Thangka Painting
○ Sikkim & Tibbet
○ Buddhism
○ Cotton canvas
○ Colour have their own significance

• Manjhusha
○ Bhaglapur region, Bihar
○ Angika also known
○ Snake painting
○ Jute/papers

• Kohvar and Sohrai paintings
○  from Jharkhand are delicate and beautiful

• Phad Painting
○ Scroll Painting
○ Rajasthan
○ Religious and folk painting
○ Done by Class of Artist Joshis
○ traditionally done on a long piece of cloth or canvas, known as had

• Ragmala Painting
○ Art, poetry and classical music amalgamation
○ Ragas are depicted in Painting
○ In medieval painting
○ Rajasthan, Deccan