Heart For Art
India has had a long tradition of exquisite handcrafted products for centuries. These arts and crafts have been suffering from lack of patronage! Our artisans are losing their market and their pride. In this scenario Heart for Art Public Charitable Trust has now been setup to give our artisans access to the market and consumers the convenience of online shopping. Along with this it helps to reach out further to many more people by bringing the handcrafted products to people's doorsteps through an online store. Thus this initiative by Heart for Art provides opportunities to the artisans, contributes towards job creation in our country and for people like me who have a soft corner for handcrafted items a great convenient place to shop online.
Trust's Online Store: www.heartforartonline.com
FacebookPage: https://www.facebook.com/HeartForArtHandicrafts
The Bengal painting workshop is an an initiative by Heart for Art to increase awareness about India’s art & craft heritage through one on one interaction between the artisans & the learners.
Everybody in Mumbai or those who will be visiting Mumbai on the last week of this month, there is a golden opportunity for you to learn Bengal Painting styles on 31st January at Art Lovers Gallery, Mount Mary Bandra and those who are staying in Pune or planning to visit Pune in last week of January to attend Bengal paintings workshop at several city institutions, art galleries and cafes of Pune (from 28th Jan to 2nd Feb).
This is a golden opportunity to learn Bengal painting with Suman Chitrakar, a young Patua Artist from West Bengal. He started painting nine years ago at the age of twenty with his mentor Jagdevji. Suman has been creatively infusing new themes to the traditional art form to create a distinctive style of his own. Suman carries the lineage of ‘folk’ artists who paint long, vertical scrolls and compose verses. Suman Chitrakar’s artwork has featured in two books – one book on Bono Bibi of the Sunderbans and another on the life of Savitribai Phule published by Azim Premji University.
Make and Carry back your own Bengal Painting!
To Register send email to info@heartforart.co.in
Or call Shashwat Menon at 93228 32138
Before attending the workshop let us know few things about Bengal Paintings
3 types of Bengal Paintings
Bengal Pattachitra
Pattachitra known for its brilliant play of colours, is an ancient folk art form of rural Bengal (Nayagram village, West Midnapore) that has been in existence for many centuries. The world Patta is derived from the Sanskrit word Patta meaning cloth. The painters are called Patuas. Pattachitras are made in two formats: the vertically scrolled paintings and the horizontally scrolled ones, both referred to as Jodano or Gutano Pata and the smaller square or rectangular formats, known as Chouko Pata. Chouko Pata are painted on square pata or canvas.
Kalighat Paintings
An urban incarnation of the Chouko Pata in nineteenth century Kolkata (in the neighbourhood of the famous Kali temple at Kalighat) was the Kalighat Pata or Kalighat paintings. Kalighat Pata is an interesting example of how a rural folk art form reinvents itself in an urban milieu.
Santal Paintings
A very different style is to be found in the Pattas of the tribals – especially the Santals, the largest tribal community in India, who live mainly in the eastern states of India. The Jadu Patuas or Santar Patuas are a community of Patuas who have been living among or in close proximity with the tribals. The word Jadu means magic. The Jadu patas or Santal Patas (Santal Paintings) are associated with the rituals and rites, legends and myths, beliefs and prejudices linked with the life cycle of the Santals and the songs sung in the Santali language.
Don't forget to visit
Trust's Online Store: www.heartforartonline.com
And hit the like button on
Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/HeartForArtHandicrafts
All Image Credit & Copyright: Heart For Art
