Folk Paintings
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God and goddess - This painting depicts a pair of God and Goddess.
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Krishna - This painting depicts Lord Krishna and Radha with his “gopi”.
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Krishna - This painting depicts Lord Krishna and his life story.
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Small leaflets - These paintings depict various Mahabharata stories.
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Celebration - This painting depicts a celebration in Mahabharata.
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Leaflets - These leaflet paintings depict two scenes in the pages of Mahabharata.
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Rainy season - This painting depicts a peacock dance on the occasion of the mansoon.
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Goddess - This painting depicts the blessing session from the goddess.
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Celebration - This painting depicts a celebration in Mahabharata.
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Under water - This painting depicts an underwater God celebration.
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Jungle gods - This painting depicts a Jungle God celebration.
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Krishna - This painting depicts Lord Krishna and Radha with his “Gopi”.
These paintings are from Telangana, Andra Pradesh. Artists in the medieval age used the medium of paintings to convey messages from religious texts. The words of bard and poets were also converted into paintings for the common folk to see. These paintings sometimes ran into scrolls of several meters when depicting a chapter from Indian mythology. Telengana region is particularly well known for its folk paintings, very colourful and bright, that serve as ideal hall hangings. It is believed that the divine architect Vishwakarma handed it down to the artisans on earth. Mostly, the uses colour of folk paintings are red, yellow, green and blue.
