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Madhubani Paintings- Lifestyle study of Craftsmen

Mithila painting (also known as Madhubani painting) is practiced in the Mithila region of India and Nepal. Painting is done with fingers, twigs, brushes, nib-pens, and matchsticks, using natural dyes and pigments, and is characterized by eye-catching geometrical patterns. 

The exact time of the origination of Madhubani or Mithila art is not known but it is believed that during the time of the Ramayana.Traditionally these paintings were passed down over generations from mother to daughter.The women painters of Mithila lived in a closed society.

The original inspiration for Madhubani art emerged from women’s craving for religiousness and an intense desire to be one with God. With the belief that painting something divine would achieve that desire, women began to paint pictures of gods and goddesses with an interpretation so divine that captured the hearts of many.

The women painters of Mithila lived in a closed society. It is locally believed that Madhubani painting tradition started when Raja Janak of Videha commissioned local artists to paint murals in his palace in preparations for the marriage of his daughter Sita to Lord Ram. The paintings were originally done on walls coated with mud and cow dung. The kohbar ghar or the nuptial chamber was the room in which the paintings were traditionally done. Originally the paintings depicted an assembly of symbolic images of the lotus plant, the bamboo grove, fishes, birds and snakes in union. These images represented fertility and proliferation of life. There used to be a tradition that the newly married bride and groom would spend three nights in the kohbar ghar without cohabiting. On the fourth night they would consummate the marriage surrounded with the colourful painting. The Mithila paintings were done only by women of the house, the village and the caste and only on occasion of marriages.

The exact time when Mithila art originated is not known , The origin can be traced to the time of the Ramayana, when King Janaka of Videha ordered his kingdom to decorate the town for the wedding of his daughter, Sita, to Lord Rama. The ancient tradition of elaborate wall paintings or Bhitti-Chitra in Nepal and Bihar played a major role in the emergence of this new art form. Except painting they use to do agricultural in the region for their economy and food. The people of madhubani they live in mud house. The drought from 1966 to 1968 crippled the agricultural economy of the region. As part of a larger initiative to bring economic relief to the region, Ms. Pupul Jayakar, the then Director of the All Indo-Nepal Handicrafts Board,sent the Bombay-based artist Mr.Bhaskar Kulkarni to Mithila to encourage women there to replicate their mural paintings on paper which, to facilitate sales, as a source of income to ensure survival.

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This is a presentation in which we have put up a market survey of kidswear street wear brands. In this project we visited some kidswear clothing outlets and asked them questions related to our research. And once that was done it was complied in the form of a powerpoint presentation which was then shown and discussed in class.

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This is a presentation in which we studied about a craft concerned NGO, which protects the authenticity of Indian handicrafts and promote it. For this project our group chose the Happy Hands Foundation.

A document for the same has been submitted in soft copy to the mentor.

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This is a mood board depicting a hypothetical collaboration between an artist and a designer. The designer i have chosen here is Dior, for i like how their garments are simple yet elaborate. That is the reason I like this design label so much. And the artist I have chosen is vincet van gogh and his artwork that I like the most and taken up for this project is Irises, in this painting the thing that appeals me the most is the colour scheme and how there is emphasis on one flower in such a way that it stands out but looks a part of the painting as a whole.

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Story Board depicting Bamboo craft of Kerela. The state of Kerala in south India is a perfect destination for tourism, holidays, health care, yoga, meditation and art & culture.However, Kerala has a tradition of making beautiful items of handicrafts. Though most crafts in Kerala are also hereditary some amateurs with special interest in art also practice the same. 

Through this Story Board we’ve tried to understand one such handicraft in our country.