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Kalighat Patas, Bengal
Folk Art
Orissa Patachitra
Madhunbani Paintings
Banni Art, Warli Art,
Batik Art
Tribal Art in India,
Santhal, Gond,
Art of Jamini Roy, SH
Raza,
Abstraction in folk Art |
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India is a land of more than 600
communities which have their distinctive cultural ethos. A prime aspect
of this cultural plurality is reflected in the Folk Art forms in India.
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many these art forms are done with such finesse and style that many of
these are entering the Art market with prices that only high quality
fine art can command. |
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Among the most well
known among the folk art of India, the Kalighat Pats stand out. These
Pats once made by the rural folk of Kalighat in Bengal
depicted stories of regular life, often with a dose of humour. In fact
Kalighat Pats are often referred to as first set of fine art works that
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Kalighat Pat |
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Kalighat
pats have once influenced a whole generation of artists including
Jamini Roy and Benode Bihari Mukherjee. Similar to these
Pats, one comes across another kind of Pats which are found in the state
of Orissa. The Orissa Patchitras, mostly painted on cloth are however
more detailed and more colourful and most of these depict stories of
Hindu gods and goddesses. |
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Orissa Patachitra |
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Like Orissa pats, Madhubani paintings are also done mostly on cloth with natural dyes.
Practiced mostly by women Madhubani used to be a community-art form.
However its popularity of late has made many men also to take up the art
form for individual expressions. |
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Madhubani painting |
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Another
very popular form of art is the Warli Art works which are practiced by a
tribal community of Maharashtra. They show high degrees of
abstraction, where the lateral space is covered by abstract
constructs and designs. Design based art works without any
specific motif are also practiced by the Banni tribes of Gujrat
and the tribes of Jharkhand |
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Warli Art |
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A very highly
sophisticated and abstract form of Art works are also produced by the
Santhals in India. The Gonds of the Godavari belt who as a tribe are as
old as the Santhals, produce figurative works rich in colours.
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Gond Art |
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Not all
the folk arts and crafts are entirely Indian in their origin. Some of
the crafts and techniques have been imported from the Orient like
the
Batik. But these have now been Indianised and Indian Batik is
now a matured Art, immensely popular and expensive. |
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Batik Print |
Abstraction,
Realism,
Surrealism,
Impressionism,
Cubism,
Fauvism,
Pseudo-realism,
Magic realism,
Erotic art,
Folk Art,
Tribal Art,
Miniature Art,
Centres of Art,
Calcutta,
Delhi, Bombay,
Vadodara,
Santiniketan,
Pablo Picasso,
Georges Braque,
Max Ernst,
Salvador Dali,
Edouard Manet,
Claude Monet
Vincent van Gogh,
Paul Gauguin,
Henry Matisse,
Alex Colville,
Paul Cadmus, George Bellows,
Ababnindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore,
Rabindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose,
Raja Ravi Verma, Hemen Majumdar,
Amrita Shergill,
Jamini Roy,
Baburao Painter,
Ramkinkar Baij,
Zainul Abedin,
Benode Bihari Mukherjee,
K G Subbhramaniyan, Krishna Hebbar,
Francis Newton Souza, Maqbool Fida Hussain, Tyeb Mehta,
Saiyyad Haider Raza, Jehangir
Sabbavala, Ganesh Pyne, KC Pyne,
Satish Gujral,
Anjolie Ela Menon,
Bikash Bhattacharya, Sunil Das,
Jatin Das,
Shyamal Duttaroy, Jogen Choudhuri,
Arpana Caur, Yusuf Arakkal, Vivan
Sundaram, Bose Kishnamachari,
Devajyoti Ray,
Atul Dodiya, Jitish Kallat,
Laxma Goud, Anupam Sud,
Shibu Natesan,
Shakila,
Warli Art,
Banni Art,
Santhal Art,
Bhill Art,
Batik Art,
Madhubani Painting,
Kashmir Papier Machete,
Kalighat Pat,
Orissa Patachitra,
History of Indian Art,
Contemporary Indian Art,
21stcentury Indian Art,
Indus Valley Art,
Indus Valley Teracotta,
Maurya Art,
Gupta Art,
Ajanta Frescoes, Ellora Frescoes,
Mahabalipuram Sculptures,
Pala Miniature,
Temple Art,
Mughal Murals,
Mughal Miniature,
Tanjore Art,
Mysore Art,
Sikh Art,
Maratha Art,
Rajasthani Art,
Company School of Art,
Bengal School Art,
Progressive Artists Group
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