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Interiors with an ethnic touch
The Indian touch to an interior space adds a sense of ethnicity and renews traditional aesthetics. Replete with vivid imagery, bright colours and symbols, art and craft from various regions across our country offer endless possibilities to brighten and animate spaces.
Many of them are deep-rooted with strong cultural and religious connotations.
Executed in almost all possible ways, the art of painting has been an integral part of the Indian civilisation from time immemorial. Folk paintings are the most natural human expressions that have evolved out of an instinctive desire to adorn one’s immediate surroundings.
The desire to beautify the environment and reach out to the heavens above has been the primary motivating force behind the tradition of Indian folk paintings.
One such celebrated traditional art form is the style of Madhubani or Mithila painting.
The origin of this art form can be traced to a town called Madhubani (the literal meaning of which is ‘forests of honey’) and other areas of Mithila in Bihar.
Popular for their tribal motifs and the use of bright earthy colours, these paintings were originally done with mineral pigments prepared by the artists themselves and found expression on freshly plastered or mud walls.
Cotton wrapped around a bamboo stick, twigs or reeds formed the brush. Coloured pigments were obtained from organic sources like vegetable dyes, turmeric, indigo, banyan leaves, soot, cow dung and flowers. Painting was considered a ceremonial community activity and was widely done by the women folk during festivals, religious events, and other milestones of the life-cycle such as birth and marriage. Madhubani paintings are renowned for their fine line drawings. .
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