Madhubani Paintings
Out of different Indian painting styles like Tanjore, Tribal, Patachitra, Moughal, Kangra Miniature and Contemporary Paintings, Madhubani paintings are unique ones with the amount of saturation of patterns with colors (mostly, RGB) that an artist gets onto the home made sheets.
Madhubani Art Unfolded:
The origins of Madhubani painting or Mithila Painting are shrouded in antiquity. Tradition states that this style of painting originated at the time of the Ramayana, when King Janak commissioned artists to do paintings at the time of marriage of his daughter, Sita, to Lord Ram.
Madhubani painting has been done traditionally by the women of villages around the present town of Madhubani (means forests of honey) and other areas of Mithila. The painting was traditionally done on freshly plastered mud wall of huts, but now it is also done on cloth, hand-made paper and canvas.
Handmade paper that an artist uses is a sheet of paper made of natural ingredients including Kohabar (Cow Dung). Whereas, the colors are from the petals of Flowers.
Madhubani paintings mostly depict mythological characters, devotional events, plants like tulasi and nature like sun, moon and religious planets. Some of the commonly painted themes are:Hindu deities are Lord Krishna, Ram, Shiva, Durga, Lakshmi, and Sarasw
From Friday, 1st Feb till Tuesday all the roads in Chennai lead towards an exhibition at Valluvarkottam. There was a display of handicrafts of the artists and manufacturers from all over the country. Among all other stalls I fell in love with the patterns of Madhubani paintings at the stall 45-50 and wish to make a visit to Madhubani District in Bihar, once in my lifetime.
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