Design Gallery
Patachitra Painting - Bhubaneswar, Orissa
Traditional Cloth-Based Painting
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Painting brushes with different sizes are used for colouring and detailing.
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Water colours, which are derived from natural stuff and chemical colours (zinc oxides and red oxides).
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Waste cotton cloth to prepare the canvas.
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Khaddar stone and Chikna stone for smoothening and shining.
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Starch made of Tamarind seed powder used as a binding agent.
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Chalk power is used for canvas making.
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Handmade canvas for Patachitra painting.
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Painting that portrays the scenario of Krishna Leela.
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The Patachitra painting describes the tales of Mahabharatha.
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Nava-gunjara painting of Vishnu in the composite of nine animals.
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Traditional Patachitra painting of Hindu deities.
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Senior artisan Mr Banudhar Mahapatra with his family.
Patachitra paintings are the pictogram of the most popular living traditions in the art world of Orissa. They are known for their strong lines and bright colors. The patachitra are generally located as the earliest indigenous paintings in the Indian state of Orissa. The name "patachitra" comes from the Sanskrit words "pata" (cloth) and "chitra" (picture), referring to traditional scroll paintings from Orissa. This old tradition still survives in places like Puri, Raghurajpur, Paralakhemundi, Chikiti and Sonepur. These paintings are based on Hindu mythology and specially inspired by Jagannath and Vaishnava sects. They were originally done on cloth and are known to depict Hindu mythology.
Benudhar Mahapatra, born in 1935, is a renowned Patachitra artist who has won a national award for his work. He comes from a family with a long history in Patachitra painting and started his career at age 15. He is the one who began to work on Patachithra painting in Puri.
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