Folk Art form depicting love, marriage, deities, life association with nature

Madhubani folk art is an art form where painting is done on a handmade paper with natural colors as turmeric, indigo, green leave extract, coal, charcoal and so on. Painting is given form with fingers, brushes, twigs, nib pen, match sticks. These paintings, of Madhubani: popular folk art form of eastern India with history, date back to Aryan times of Ramayana.

According to Ramayna king Janak, Sita‘s father himself supposed to order folks, to spread pictorial depiction of Sita’s marriage to Lord Rama, through colorful art work. This art work therefore mostly depicts folk lores, Rama-Sita vivaha(marriage), other related tales of that time, people relations with nature and other mythological deities.

Modern painters have experimented with new paints instead of traditional colors. This art form originated around 2500 years ago in Madhubani district of Mithila region of Bihar in Eastern India and Nepal.

5 Styles of Madhubani Art

Madhubani painting was practiced as a wall art and later shifted to paper and canvas by modern painters. Nowdays fabrics and sarees with similar art form are available as fashion statement.

Following are the 5 art styles which were earlier divided in specific caste and creed but now practiced aby all artisans:

• Bharni
• Katchni
• Tantrik
• Godna
• Kohbar

Artists Imagination

Artists depicts following figures and dcorate them with colors:

• Sun
• Moon
• Birds
• Trees
• Tulsi
• Mythological characters and Gods (Shiva-Shakti, Rama-Sita, Radha-Krishna, and so on)
• Cow
• Flowers
• Geometrical and artistic shapes
• Borders
• Themes of birth and marriages and other social events.

Art work from various artists

State government has initiated the project to decorate and paint the side walls of footpath and trains which run interstate to provide recognition to art work and artisans throughout country and internationally:

Art in any form has the ability to express, inspire and motivate and educate in any period of time! Art gives you freedom of expression. Art is a perfect leisure activity also a kind of supreme meditation!