Madhubani Art

Folk Art of India

India is an ethnically and religiously diverse country. Given this diversity, it is difficult to generalize widely about the folk art of India. The folk and tribal arts of India speak volumes about the country's rich heritage. Art forms in India have been exquisite and explicit.

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Some famous folk and tribal arts of India include:

• Tanjore painting

• Madhubani painting

• Nirmal paintings

• Warli folk painting

• Pattachitra painting

• Rajasthani miniature painting

• Kalamezhuthu

Focused Areas

The subjects of most paintings are:

• Hindu gods, goddesses, and saints, Ajanta, and other Mughul art

• Episodes from Hindu Puranas, Sthala-Puranas - Natural objects like the sun, the moon, and religious plants

• People and their association with nature, scenes, and deities from the ancient epics - scenes from the royal court and social events like weddings, festivals, or harvests

• Gaps are filled with paintings of flowers, animals, birds, and even geometric designs (a circle, a triangle, and a square), and symbols of different elements of nature and other religious texts were visualized, sketched or traced, and painted with the main figure or figures placed in the central section of the picture.

Tools

These paintings are characterized by rich and vivid colors, simple iconic compositions.

Fingers, twigs, brushes, nib-pens, matchsticks, using natural dyes, pigments mixture of branches, earth, red brick, rice flour, and water. The colors of these paintings are extracted from minerals, herbs, and various other plants.