Mansa Devi (Deity) Story (Katha)

Size: 12"/30"
Year: Unknown
Paper: Pata pape

Patachitra art of West Bengal is a fascinating Performing Art. Painting, Story Telling, Drama, Singing, Patachitra Paintings have all this and more. It has lovely patterns, bright colors, centuries old folklore, and perennial wisdom of ‘right always wins over wrong’, folk songs and a wide range of human emotions. Patachitra art of West Bengal originated in the age when there were no theatres and shows. Creativity blended storytelling, art and mythology. Patachitra (Scroll painting)  took form when Art moved from walls to scrolls and folios and above all to itinerant showmen who are called Shobhanikars / Patidars / Chitrakars / Patuas (Painter Bards / rural Canvas Painters).

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