An elephant rendered in Mithila style of art silk-screen printed on handmade paper.
Rambharos Jha: Traditional Mithila artists paint the crab, as well as a related creature called the Spider Crab.
Exquisitely rendered images of an imaginative water-world – in the Mithila folk style from Bihar.
The beautiful handmade cards in this box are rendered in the brilliant Mithila style of folk painting from eastern India.
A snake rendered in Mithila style of art silk-screen printed on handmade paper.
Two types of crabs rendered in the brilliant Mithila style of folk painting from eastern India.
An octopus rendered in the brilliant Mithila style of folk painting from eastern India.
A whale rendered in the brilliant Mithila style of folk painting from eastern India.
A crocodile rendered in the brilliant Mithila style of folk painting from eastern India.
Amrita Das: I thought of my own childhood… and started to paint two girls under a tree.
Dulari Devi: I thought of the fish my mother and I used to sell in the market, and the strange patterns on them.
Rambharos Jha: Here is my version of a ritual snake, resting on the ocean bed.
Rambharos Jha: Here is the octopus in its habitat, with its meal tray—clams, starfish, scallops and sea-urchins.
Rambharos Jha: I thought of two things with a crocodile – its prickly harsh body, and the waters that house it.
Rambharos Jha: Here is a whale in the ocean, swimming in different directions, curving and circling.
Rambharos Jha: Whenever there is a marriage in our region, the motif of the lotus is painted on the floor.
Rambharos Jha: Sea-horses move quietly and vertically through the water.
Rambharos Jha: Cranes swim away with their favourite food.
பத்துப்பாத்திரங்கள் தேய்த்த கைகள் எவ்வாறு ஓவியம் வரைய வந்தன?
Dulari Devi: We pray to the Sun God once a year.
